Recently my young nephew was walking around the house wincing and yelping with every step. “What’s the matter?” asked his mother. “Lego” “Lego?” “Sock” She looked at his feet. “You’ve put Lego in your socks?” The little boy nodded. “Why?” He shrugged “I’ll take it out” she suggested “No, no, no!” he screamed and struggled against attempts to extricate him from his Scandinavian toy brick footwear. “Lego. Sock.”

In her Easter message Theresa May talked about Brexit and claimed ‘there is a sense that people are coming together and uniting behind the opportunities that lie ahead’. She is wrong. There is no such sense. The UK isn’t coming together. The leave and remain camps are as entrenched as…

The self-delusion, fantasies and out and out lies of brexiteerism are about to be cast into unforgiving daylight by the triggering of Article 50. Undoubtedly, their ideology will soon shrivel up and die as it meets the harsh reality of the real world. …

The result of the UK’s referendum on membership of the European Union has lifted the veil of complacency and brought the country’s divisions and problems into focus. These issues can now be addressed. Pre-referendum Britain has gone, and that’s a good thing. As Joni Mitchell once sang: “Don’t it always…

We walk around with devices that are super-connected to the world in a way that was unthinkable even a few years ago. We have the potential to live in a global village, with the fabric of our society written digitally across the planet. However, far from expanding our horizons, the Internet has enabled us to seek out others who are just like us and things that people like us enjoy. We gather around nodes of information that we agree with and live in our own self-curated online bubbles.

It is not undemocratic, ignoring the voice of the people or remainer whining to call for a second EU referendum. In fact, not having a second referendum is deeply unfair to both Leave and Remain voters. Without it we will not have a voice in the creation of our new…

On June 23 2016 the UK voted to leave the European Union. It is now five weeks on and we are still in a state of confusion. Here are the reasons why it keeps me up at night: A question that should not have been asked David Cameron wanted to settle…

Leave. It’s a common, active verb. You leave the house to go out and have fun. You leave it all behind and go on holiday. You leave a boring party. Maybe that’s why people post ‘Leave’ posters in their window; it sounds snappy, proactive and strong. …

Today, you only realise that you have crossed over from Northern Ireland into the Republic of Ireland when you start noticing road signs in Irish and kilometres. The border is a solid line on a map, but in everyday reality it is an invisible threshold. …