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By Harold Stone and Daniel Mulloy.  Our Brexit vote was many things. It was a protest against globalisation, a defiance of Westminster politics, and another shrug of apathy from young people. Like it or not, it was also a right-wing revolution - at least partly. The job for British/Scottish politicians (those who aren’t knee deep in coups or fleeing the scene) should be to understand these attitudes while the country drifts further and further into Brexitopia. The far-right element of our referendum...

'Remain voters are getting really boring now. It’s called democracy. They lost. Why don’t they just get over it?' This weekend saw tens of thousands of people march through the streets of London to protest over the EU referendum result. Banners such as ‘UN F*&k my Future’ ‘We are the 48%’ and ‘Winning by lying = cheating’ were on show as the swelling crowds overflowed out of Parliament Square. Some estimates suggested over 50,000 people attended the march. The march...

The Labour Party is tearing itself apart. Jeremy Corbyn's lukewarm support of the Remain campaign is just the excuse many Labour MP s have been waiting for. Corbyn's overwhelming surprise victory in Labour's leadership election upset moderate and right-leaning Labour members. Though Corbyn did his best to satisfy his parliamentary party detractors by appointing them to his shadow cabinet, he was never going to win them over. His years on Labour's fringes meant mainstream politicians would never make it into...

“Everybody loves to laugh don’t we? We all love to laugh,” Mrs Merton said to a young Steve Coogan on the iconic talk show sofa. Like Jim Royle, Barbs and the plethora of other television characters she dreamt up, Caroline Aherne was always well placed to preach. But her sad passing has left a huge gap when we’re all most in need of a giggle. Laughing has always been a big part of working class communities, but it’s not a...

By Bill E. Lytton We are entering a period of unprecedented, but entirely predictable, political and economic volatility. The next major test for politicians and campaigners in post-Brexit Britain is how to handle promises they made repeatedly throughout the referendum. Already, Boris Johnson and Michael Gove - as seen in their speeches at Vote Leave HQ - are trying to distance themselves from the more tarnishing elements of the Leave campaign. On reneged promises, it has also become clear - though...

Still suffering from the EU referendum earthquake, the wheels may be coming off the UK already. Scotland gave a resounding 'No' to the Eurosceptic lobby setting the scene for another independence vote. Northern Ireland chose to remain despite the DUP's self-serving europhobia. Voters in both countries can rightly claim they've been unwillingly pulled in the wrong direction. More than anyone else, Londoners must feel their destiny is now out of their hands. Despite huge support for Remain across the city,...

By Sarah Townsend  So it turns out I don't know the country I live in. On the 23rd of June I thought that I lived in a moderate democracy where people benefitted from their ability to read and hear fact-based and impartial information afforded to us by to our right to free speech and relatively educated population. On the 24th June it became clear that what I thought I knew was a lie. David Cameron has resigned and he is...

Thursday. How on Earth is it not Saturday yet? Having been up marking some of my 250-plus books till the wee small hours, I wake up taking a few seconds to recall what day it is. I’m off on a course, which adds 90 minutes to my travelling time and I have to sort out cover lessons too. This, for the uninitiated, is the Twilight Zone. That time of year when, somehow, teachers drag their bedraggled, wrecked bodies and minds...

By Dani Porter As many others are likely feeling right now, I am stunned. I barely have the words, or perhaps too many words, to know where to start on this very bleak, dispiriting day. There is much I could say on how I feel this is a terrible decision for the UK electorate to have (marginally majority) voted for, and on the very real and understandable fear over what it might mean for our futures – our financial security, our...