Tag Archives: Scotland

Brexit: England’s ‘Kobayashi Maru’

September 8, 2016 · by · in Current Events · 1 Comment

Nearly three months have passed since the United Kingdom (UK) voted to leave the European Union (EU) in a close referendum roughly split between 52% in favour of the motion and 48% against. When that momentous decision was made then-prime minister David Cameron resigned in the belief that he no longer held a mandate to […]

Curtain Call for “The United Kingdom”?

January 29, 2013 · by · in Current Events · 112 Comments

We’re living through an interesting and potentially groundbreaking peroid of history at the moment with “The Arab Spring”, the very first African-American  President of the United States taking and retaining office, the economic balance of power shifting eastwards, and seeing the biggest challenge to Capitalism since the Bolshevik Revolution and “The Great Depression” of the […]