Farage (et al) are trying to whip this up into yet another grievance by implying that Broadmoor is a soft option, incompatible with the gravity of the crime, despite it being where the Yorkshire Ripper and Ronnie Kray, amongst others, were held. It's so irresponsible, manipulative & corrosive.

The Burnham chapter begins. New post on my Brexit & Brexitism Blog assessing Burnham and Burnhamism, plus Farage’s fortunes, and the rancid reactions to the alleged murder of Ann Widdecombe. Long, last post of the summer: chrisgreybrexitblog.blogspot.com/2026/07/the-...

Amongst many important points in @jdportes.bsky.social article is the succinct explanation of why universities are vital to a coherent economic strategy.

Parsing Farage’s démarche farce. A day earlier than usual, new post on my Brexit & Brexitism Blog on what little Brexit news there is but mainly on Farage's 'resignation' and the deeper issues of defining democracy and of cryptocurrencies: chrisgreybrexitblog.blogspot.com/2026/07/pars...

This seems to be becoming a thing. Today, I got another one, littered with horribly manipulative but transparently crap AI-speak praising 'my' book "Call Me KC and The Pink Diamonds". If this really is the kind of productivity revolution AI offers then we are in deep, deep trouble.

It's a really important question. IMO, for populists 'authenticity' is inseparable from 'anti-ruleism' & the idea that experts and moralists force people to be 'inauthentic'. This also explains why authentic leaders aren't seen as the elite. I've written about this a few times e.g. this extract.

Brexit ten years on: unsettled and unsettling. New post on my Brexit & Brexitism Blog on the connections between Starmer’s resignation & the referendum anniversary, and why that anniversary isn’t a commemoration but an episode within the ongoing saga: chrisgreybrexitblog.blogspot.com/2026/06/brex...

So it's now 10 years since the vote to leave the EU. For a detailed account and analysis of what happened from the day after that, see my book, "Brexit Unfolded: How no one got what they wanted (and why they were never going to)": www.bitebackpublishing.com/books/brexit...

The Lincoln Cathedral Imp and the Norwich Cathedral Green Man are also wonderful (literally)

Despair. New post on my Brexit & Brexitism Blog about how politics is stuck whilst violence intensifies, how ‘the first lie wins’ in constructing political narratives, and how Brexit ruptured the 'cordon sanitaire'. Long and depressing read: chrisgreybrexitblog.blogspot.com/2026/06/desp...

Or, perhaps, a good face for radio? But, yes, I have done a bit e.g. here on BBC WS in a tent on College Green on the day of one of the big Brexit votes, when a suitably huge thunderstorm was raging, with Rob Watson and Razia Iqbal. I wasn't very good at it, though. Too much umming & erring.

A new national conversation, or just the same old one? New post on my Brexit & Brexitism Blog discussing the different strands of the now intensifying revival of discussion about Brexit, including the latest developments in the 'reset': chrisgreybrexitblog.blogspot.com/2026/05/a-ne...

About 9.5 years since launch, my Brexit & Brexitism Blog (as it's now called) has just had its 12 millionth visit. Many thanks to all who have read online or via email, and all who have helped publicise it over the years.

I re-posted this earlier before I'd read the report, and as @davidheniguk.bsky.social says it really is extremely good. From a UK perspective, the proposal for "a systematic, evidence-based review" is crucial. It's actually astonishing there hasn't been one already. 1/3

Well if that is what she is saying, then she's wrong. It's not odd, it was predictable. Or, at least, I predicted it.

"Odd" is actually an odd word to use. She may think it's misguided, but hardly odd and certainly no odder than her stated position.

This new @writesbright.bsky.social piece is very good both in its main argument and the interesting sub-argument that for all the public distrust of politicians there's a kind of "electoral complacency" that the government will always provide a safety net:

A pregnant pause. New post on my Brexit & Brexitism Blog arguing that the combined effect of the May election results, the next UK-EU summit & the 10th anniversary of the referendum will be to initiate a renewed debate about Brexit: chrisgreybrexitblog.blogspot.com/2026/05/a-pr...

New post on my Brexit & Brexitism Blog, reviewing @sarahobolt.bsky.social & James Tilley's new book "Tribal Politics. How Brexit Divided Britain": chrisgreybrexitblog.blogspot.com/2026/04/book... (this is an additional post to the normal fortnightly posts, which continue as usual next week)

It's astonishing that Singham is still peddling this nonsense. The UK *did* pursue this under Johnson-Frost and, for good reasons, it was rejected in 2020 - as Singham knows because when that happened he still refused to accept it (& evidently still does): www.express.co.uk/news/uk/1384... 1/3

New times, same old arguments. New post on my Brexit & Brexitism blog discussing the latest developments in the rapidly changing international order and how post-Brexit Britain is stuck in delusions of greatness and cries of Brexit betrayal: chrisgreybrexitblog.blogspot.com/2026/04/new-...

Bad vibes. New post on my Brexit & Brexitism Blog looking at how discussion of Brexit and the reset is still saturated with dishonesty, and the latest episodes in the 'vibe politics' that have embedded that dishonesty in British politics: chrisgreybrexitblog.blogspot.com/2026/04/bad-...

In Farage-land, it is always 1940, even if there is some confusion about sides.

Extraordinary stupidity or disingenuity being peddled by Chris Philp MP about UK Unis suggesting: 1. There's something sinister in them having London campuses, miles way. There isn't: in the market-driven HE environment Philp surely favours, it's responding to what some/ many students want. 1/3

I've become used to the descent into vileness of Laurence Fox, Morrisey and John Cleese, but Jan Leeming? Jan Leeming?

Very good Private Eye 1671 report on how ineffective Freeports have been. Not unexpected. Note, though, what isn't there: any sign they have become 'Charter Cities', or 'states within a state', with corporation-made law, no employment rights, no NHS, no regulation etc. etc. 1/2

Churchill and the wars. New post on my Brexit & Brexitism Blog looking at the impact of the Iran war on UK politics, the increasingly unhinged culture war, and whether we might just end up ‘thanking Trump’. Includes a revelation about my past: chrisgreybrexitblog.blogspot.com/2026/03/chur...

Badenoch today criticises Trump's attacks on Starmer's Iran stance as childish but yesterday attacked that stance on the grotesque grounds of appeasing 'sectarianism'. Why? Transparently because she calculates that both lines appeal to her voter base. Deeply unserious politics at such a serious time

Many have asked what 'Woke' really means, suggesting it's meaningless or just means 'things I don't like'. Now, we have a definition and, yes, it turns out it's meaningless or just means 'things I don't like'

Bitcoin. Farage. Kwarteng. What could possibly go wrong? Oh: www.forbes.com/sites/digita...