My Brexit Diary: before the Referendum, 2000-2016
Next: The Sell Out, June 2016-March 2019
I was taken on as a lecturer teaching 'Economics of the European Union' on the University of Delaware's London Programme around 2000
21 January 2002, at the Atomium, Brussels, and below, my American students walking into one or other of the EU buildings
In 2005 enrolled to study for a doctorate at the University of Westminster's Centre for the Study of Democracy, with the title 'dynamics of European integration'
Christmas 2007, at the Centre for the Study of Democracy, University of Westminster, with Amanda Machin, Julia Svetlichnaja, Dave Chandler and Tara McCormack
In New York, December 2005, I was giving a paper on the European Union. This is Alex Gourevitch who organised the 'Sovereignty and Its Discontents' workgroup in America, with the veteran political scientist Andrew Arato, who was a little surprised at the 'Eurosceptic' note in my paper
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19 December 2006, editors Chris Bickerton, Phil Cunliffe and Alex Gourevitch launch Politics without Sovereignty, including my chapter on the EU, in Cork
April 2007 'Limits of European Economic Unification' for Critique
13 September 2007, SGIR panel in Turin, with Giovanna Bono, and Chris Bickerton at the end, me talking on retreat from Sovereignty
7 December 2009 Contracting out Authority, for Critique
24 February 2009, I chaired this meeting at which Munira Mirza was speaking about culture policy
Autumn, 2009, 'Demobilising the nation', for the journal International Politics
30 May 2013, launch of my book (my Ph.D.) The European Union and the End of Politics, at CSD in London
31 March 2014, Leeds, debating the future of the EU at the Leeds Salon
29 June 2015 - left unity demo against EU austerity measures in Greece and other Southern European states, with Jeremy Corbyn far left, and John Rees, far right
11 Nov 2015, Reform the EU? Pull the Other One for Spiked
13 April 2016, The Full Brexit meeting, 'The Political Theory of Brexit' at the LSE with Maurice Glasman and Paul Embery
2 June 2016 with Sam Fowles, Enrico Tortolano, and Dan Morley, debating Europe at the Brighton Salon (Sean chairing)
18 June 2016 debating Brexit at the Liverpool Salon
21 June 2016 The European Union has failed, for Sheffield History Matters
23 June 2016, with Russian journalist Galina Sapozhnikova at the ballot box, and below, my vote
Next: The Sell Out, June 2016-March 2019