"brexit" blog posts
Ambivalent citizenship
The meaning of citizenship is a matter of an ongoing academic discussion. However, for politicians, it is such a clear notion. Its meaning changes depending on political agenda or ideology.
Posted on: 9 October 2018
Am I Not A Citizen?
The following talks to and mirrors Theresa May's infamous ´Citizens of Nowhere´ speech delivered on 5 October 2016. I wrote it a few days before Article 50 was triggered.
Posted on: 28 March 2017
My passport is maroon
Speaking to me recently about Brexit, a German living in Luxembourg mentioned that the scariest border experience he had ever had in his life was crossing between Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland in the 1970s.
Posted on: 28 March 2017
Too Much Democracy
In the wake of the referendum, a depressing quantity of the political conversation in the UK has been given over to the question of whether it’s legitimate to refer to certain sections of the voting public as stupid.
Posted on: 28 February 2017
We need to think about redefining citizenship in the Anthropocene
The hottest year on record was 2016. It was also the year scientists advised that Earth’s citizens were now living in the Anthropocene, the name proposed for an epoch in which humans influence geology and environment on a global scale.
Posted on: 17 February 2017
Britain does not break Treaties dixit Maggie Thatcher
If you, like me, are feeling bereft by the potentially imminent loss of your European Citizenship, then you might agree in finding the jokey vocabulary, which creates portmanteaus of ‘British’ and ‘exit’ and ‘British’ and ‘remain’ and ‘British’ and ‘moan’, simply irritating.
Posted on: 10 February 2017
What's in a postcode?
As I step off my local bus and walk down the street on my way home I see two things: a boarded up Victorian shop-front, the second floor and attic level newly collapsed onto the street, exposing the remaining interior structure to the elements; and a ‘Leave’(EU) sticker placed in the window of a house several doors down. The dilapidated scene of this street is harrowingly neglected, but not uncommon among the working class postcodes of North Liverpool. Since my adolescence, Anfield has always been classified as a financially poor, socially deprived, ward – today, these symptoms have manifested into toxic ideas concerning culture.
Posted on: 8 February 2017