Referenda are a populist gimmick drafted to unite as many people as possible on a single issue. They work when leaders are popular and voters vote for the messenger.
In the wake of England's vote to leave the EU, the glue keeping Scotland in the UK is rapidly dissolving.
If we let it, 'post-truth politics' will kill our NHS.
Northern Ireland voted to Remain in the EU, and now, even Unionists are applying for Irish passports...
On Thursday 23 June 2016 the Far Right achieved its most important victory in British electoral history.
The UK has stepped back from Europe, stepped back from the world – and in the process done deep damage to itself, the EU and the wider world.
OUT won because the EU establishment have made it impossible, through their anti-democratic reign (not to mention the asphyxiation of weaker countries like Greece), for the people of Britain to imagine a democratic EU.
The referendum is at the centre of these shifting plates. It is the crack which can become a chasm in the postwar order.
The English left will only succeed if it includes democratic demands alongside its economic strategies.
Scotland voted overwhelmingly to stay in the EU. It should be allowed to do so.
Never has a nation relegated itself into obscurity with such needless, reckless abandon.
From its inception, the referendum has suffered from a fundamental misalignment: it is not asking the right questions. "Leave" and "Remain" are stark contrasts in a world that never presents binary choices.
