Steve Anglesey

Europe, Watford

Host at The New European Podcast

Editor at The New European

Editor of @theneweuropean. Come and write for us: [email protected]

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Articles

Spies, lies and Britain’s prize: We still need a Brexit inquiry

1 week ago | theneweuropean.co.uk | Steve Anglesey

After the BBC unearthed photos of three Bulgarians convicted of spying for Russia attending a Brexit committee in Westminster in 2016, two words not heard for a long time have started to resurface among some excitable Remainers: Brexit inquiry. Eager though I am to see Britain return to the European Union, the pictures hardly offer conclusive proof that Vladimir Putin bought the referendum.
Leni Riefenstahl, propagandist with a will to deceive

1 week ago | theneweuropean.co.uk | Steve Anglesey

It was Leni Riefenstahl’s 100th birthday, and once again the director was sitting down to be questioned about the years in which she mythologised Adolf Hitler, the Nazis and the Aryan aesthetic in masterfully composed, morally corrupt films like Triumph of the Will (1935).
If Brexit is so unpopular, why is Farage winning?

2 weeks ago | theneweuropean.co.uk | Steve Anglesey

Let’s start with some contradictory facts. Exhibit A is the almost historic unpopularity of Brexit. When Britons are asked if the 2016 referendum vote was a mistake, Yes leads No by 25%. Asked how they’d vote in a new one, Rejoin leads Stay Out by around 15%. Perhaps these leads will grow still further as it becomes clear that not only has leaving the EU badly damaged the economy, it has also damaged our health.
Can Starmer sell Britain on the Brexit reset summit deal?

3 weeks ago | theneweuropean.co.uk | Steve Anglesey

“Net zero is the new Brexit” is now Nigel Farage’s mantra. But what if the new Brexit is actually Brexit? The UK and EU are moving closer to an agreement of real substance ahead of their summit on May 19, yet this will rake over the coals of the Brexit wars. With Farage and Kemi Badenoch ready to scream about surrendered sovereignty and lost opportunities, it is vital that Keir Starmer and his government get their retaliation in first.
Farage the farmers’ friend wants to sell them out - again

4 weeks ago | theneweuropean.co.uk | Steve Anglesey

“Reform are the party of working people,” is Nigel Farage’s new mantra, and guess what, it turns out to be true – as long as the people he is talking about are working in the White House or on American farms. With the obvious exception of Clacton, Farage is everywhere at the moment.
The sweet sound of 'Brexit betrayal'

1 month ago | theneweuropean.co.uk | Steve Anglesey

“Has this government any idea of how to do negotiations?” That was the question posed on April 8 by a member of the House of Lords, alarmed by a right wing website’s claims of an imminent “major Brexit betrayal” by Keir Starmer. The peer was furious after Guido Fawkes reported that Starmer’s Brexit reset deal, to be finalised at the UK/European Union summit on May 19, would include agreements on fishing rights and a youth mobility scheme.
No, Trump’s tariffs don’t prove Brexit win

1 month ago | theneweuropean.co.uk | Steve Anglesey

Donald Trump’s tariffs may be threatening to make financial depressions great again, but one thing has been given an unexpected boost – the Brexiteer sport of speed wishful thinking. No sooner had Trump announced that UK products would face import taxes of 10% while those from the European Union would be hit by 20% (tariffs that will be paid by American consumers and make already rising US inflation rise even faster) that the chorus began.
The Brexit statistic that puts Rachel Reeves’s boasts to shame

1 month ago | theneweuropean.co.uk | Steve Anglesey

Rachel Reeves’s beer could not have been any smaller had she been toasting Britain’s economy with a foaming thimble …of zero-alc mild. “This government’s [planning] policies will increase the level of real GDP by 0.6% over the next 10 years. Mr Speaker, that is the difference this Labour government is making,” she declared during Wednesday’s spring statement.
EU defence fund won't destroy the Brexit reset

1 month ago | theneweuropean.co.uk | Steve Anglesey

The headlines seemed pretty clear, pretty disappointing – even pretty petty after all of Keir Starmer’s glad-handing around Europe. “EU shuts Britain out of €150bn rearmament fund” said the Daily Telegraph. “British arms industry blocked,” said the Times. “So much for the Brexit reset!” sneered the Mail. The reaction came on the back of new rules governing loans from Brussels for EU27 countries ramping up their defence spending in the wake of American abdication.
The iron curtain and the silver screen

1 month ago | theneweuropean.co.uk | Steve Anglesey

In Warsaw during the iron curtain years, a young artist is shown into an unfussy private screening room and offered a cup of tea. Then, the latest Hollywood blockbuster begins to play for an audience of one – sometimes with subtitles included, sometimes with an official reading over the dialogue from a translated script.