Month: March 2019

Britain – the lonely isle

Listen to the news any day of the week for the last two years in the United Kingdom, and one subject rules them all. Even newsreaders are tiring of it, but as the fateful date of Brexit approaches – March 29th, 2019 – the tone is getting more and more desperate. Without agreement with the EU, the threat of a hard Brexit evokes fears of vast queues of lorries, goods spoiling at borders, shortages of pharmaceuticals, disruption of flights, renewal of troubles in at the Irish border and many other potential disasters. Read More