Category Archives: Brexit

Brexit Diary

Posted on May 7, 2021 by Lia Mills

We were in London 2018-2019 for much of the drama surrounding the Brexit debate. The good people at EFACIS (Thank you Hedwig Schwall, Anne Fogarty, Joachim Fischer) have published these extracts from a diary I kept at that time: http://kaleidoscope2.efacis.eu/publications/brexit-diary-october-2018-december-2019-1

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No Small Talk (Brexit: the Use and Abuse of Language)

Posted on November 6, 2019 by Lia Mills

Are you concerned about the divisive rhetoric used during prolonged Brexit debates?  Irish people living in Britain report noticing a change in atmosphere and attitudes when the Backstop was a live issue. Friends in the North are understandably sickened by … Continue reading →

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BREXIT (The night Theresa May’s deal was voted down)

Posted on February 3, 2019 by Lia Mills

Reuters reports today that there are plans afoot to move the Royal Family out of London if things turn sour  I didn’t intend to blog about Brexit, but this jogged my memory. We were in London in the middle of … Continue reading →

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Feminism, Brexit and the Irish Border: Rita Duffy at the Courtauld Institute of Art

Posted on October 19, 2018 by Lia Mills

“NEITHER HERE NOR THERE” (Images are low-res screenshots of overhead projections, taken on an iphone on the night. Go to http://www.ritaduffystudio.com for proper images) Edwin Coomasaru, a post-doctoral Fellow at the Courtauld Institute introduced Rita Duffy as ‘an artist getting … Continue reading →

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