For the UK, it’s deal or no-deal. But other European countries talk about the options for Britain’s withdrawal from the EU in different terms. The divergence in terminology indicates that attitudes to Brexit as well as the European project more generally are also...
Why has it been so difficult for Theresa May to convince her own MP’s of the importance of the Political declaration about the future relationship between the UK and the EU? The answer to this question has a lot to do with the view of politics that currently...
“Indefinite Leave to Remain: Wie wir auf Brexit-Englisch die Zukunft Europas gestalten” 26 February 2019, 6pm Room 3.20, ArtsTwo Building, Mile End Campus, Queen Mary University of London Die Brexit-Debatte bedeutet für Großbritannien Mobilisierung und...
National newspapers in the UK and Germany have published three open letters with ideas about the future relationship between the two countries. They are remarkably different in both substance and style, and the little words are more revealing than the big ones. So...
Wie hängen Heimat und Horizont, Ferne und Fremde, Selbstfindung und überraschende Begegnung zusammen? Damit diese großen Fragen nicht zu abstrakt werden, habe ich sie im Rahmen der vom Kulturwissenschaftlichen Institut (KWI) veranstaltete Reihe Cinescience in Essen am...
In September 2018 I published a German book presenting 111 reasons to love England, called 111 Gründe, England zu lieben. Here are 5 things that people have been asking me ever since about my love for England. 1: “Is it about England or Britain?” I appreciate that...
