Economics
Philip Cunliffe: This is not a class war
The unions didn’t cause our summer of discontent Read Here
Philip Cunliffe
National Politics
Philip Cunliffe: Putin is following the Bosnia playbook
The Russian invasion of Ukraine is widely seen as drawing the curtain on the era of Western domination that defined the Nineties. Yet the End of History was not a peaceful time: the conflict now […]
National Politics
Philip Cunliffe – Brexit from NATO
“It is Russia that has invaded Ukraine, but it is NATO’s high-handed indifference to political reality that has provoked the war. Reckless is a polite way of describing NATO’s policy.” Philip Cunliffe is Senior Lecturer […]
EU politics
James Foley – Cosmopolitan Dystopia: Why Empire Needs Fatuous Leftism
The ideology of imperialist war has become almost indistinguishable from the rhetoric of human rights in recent decades. James Foley reviews a new study of liberal interventionism by Philip Cunliffe. James Foley is a founding […]
EU politics
Philip Cunliffe, George Hoare, Lee Jones, Peter Ramsay – COVID-19: We’re Not In Control
The total incompetence of the EU political class (there were isolated exceptions) in the face of the Corona Crisis shows once again that it has lost its ability to govern, its only policy for decades […]
EU politics
Philip Cunliffe – Beyond the Full Brexit: For Democratic Self-Determination and Internationalism for the Whole of Europe
We at the Full Brexit have argued that Boris Johnson’s Brexit is not the Full Brexit. Yet as dedicated internationalists, we also want more than Brexit. Philip Cunliffe is Senior Lecturer in International Conflict at […]
Austerity
Philip Cunliffe: Why university staff are right to strike
Marketisation threatens the very purpose of our universities. Read here
EU politics
Philip Cunliffe – Who Shall Rouse Him Up? Brexit: The World Turned Upside Down
On Sunday a leftist German blog wrote to ask if we could explain Brexit. As far as they could see, it was a simply a question of the British trying to gain trade advantages and […]
EU politics
Philip Cunliffe – We Already Had Empire 2.0: it’s Called the EU
Claims persist that voters backed leaving the EU out of nostalgia for Britain’s imperial past. In reality it is Remainers who most bemoan Britain’s post-Brexit loss of standing, reflecting the fact that the EU was […]
EU politics
Philip Cunliffe – Brexit: Phoney Cosmopolitanism versus Genuine Internationalism
One of the inexplicable elements of the Brexit debate is the development of the Remain movement. Portraying itself as the enlightened 48% of Britain, beyond a few progressive elements, has not laid down any plans […]