Brexit
Labour asked the Government 170 questions about Brexit: What are yours?
The Labour party has published a list of questions for the Government to answer about Brexit, 170 to be precise. But what do we really want to know about our impending departure from Europe?
Written by: Locke Fitzpatrick
A post-Brexit spike in homophobic hate crime? It's a part of 'taking back control'
From Where I Stand — When reports surfaced earlier this week of a spike in homophobic hate crime after Brexit, to many the link made little sense. James Butler argues that in fact taking back control was never just about the European Union, but clawing back society to a distant, oppressive past.
Written by: James Butler
The young Brits reconnecting with their European heritage after Brexit
Dual citizenship? Yes please — We’ve turned our backs on Europe, our tiny, drizzly island looks set to become more isolated than ever before. But young people in Britain didn't vote for Brexit, and many are desperate to soften the blow. One possibility that’s occurring to thousands of us is reclaiming the heritage of our ancestors from the continent.
Written by: Marianna Manson
What it's like to tour Brexit Britain as a non-white musician
Battling anxiety in the face of ignorance — After being racially abused in the street, Vanessa Govinden had a frightening realisation: her band Little Fists was about to tour post-Brexit UK for the first time, exposing to her a nation fraught with rising xenophobia. This is the story of how she overcame the panic.
Written by: Vanessa Govinden
The poet and the photographer who discovered Brexit Britain in 2006
Destroying the Laboratory — Magnum photographer Mark Power collaborated with poet Daniel Cockrill to document the rise in English nationalism in between 2006 and 2010. With hindsight, the project appears like an eerie map of Brexit Britain.
Written by: Alex King
'You guys are stupid': Young, Polish party-goers talk Brexit Britain
A very bad idea — Whether you like it or not, Britian has voted for Brexit, and what this really means remains uncertain. As the UK descends into a full scale political crisis, it's easy to forget that leaving the European Union will impact our European neighbours as much as ourselves. We headed to Open'er Festival in Poland to find out what young Poles make of Brexit.
Written by: Michael Segalov
“We’re not leaving the UK, this is our home”
An afternoon in a Polish deli — Amid a spike in post-Brexit attacks on minorities across the UK, we went to a Polish deli and witnessed Polish people’s defiant reaction to racist intimidation aimed at forcing them out.
Written by: Alex King
10 ways Brexit could affect young people
Surviving a sinking UK — Britain’s split with the EU won’t be pretty. Huck gets to the bottom of the propaganda, myths and the deluge of questions nobody can answer yet, to look at how Brexit will affect you.
Written by: Alex King, Andrea Kurland and Max Gayler
Brexit Britain: You've been played
The roots of racist resentment — As the UK votes to leave the European Union, the population is left to face a hard truth. This campaign was fuelled by a resentful white nationalism - the roots of which run deep. But what happens when the manipulated masses don't "get back" the country they were promised all along?
Written by: Gavan Titley
Website crash excludes young people from registering for EU referendum
Computer says, ‘No’ — Remain vote dealt major blow as tech problems affect hundreds of thousands of young voters who left registration until the last minute.
Written by: Saoirse O'Leary