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Brexit stems from a civil war in capitalism – we are all just collateral damage Details To one sort of capitalist, the insecurity and chaos that Brexit will bring is horrifying. To the other, it is highly profitable This George Monbiot article was published back in November but more than a month later, and with an 11th hour EU trade deal just having been agreed that has people poring over the fine print, it remains a brilliant exposé of the forces using Brexit to turn the UK into a beachhead among European nations for disruption and deregulation.* And biotech is ...

SHARE A leading Brexiteer and former diplomat has told of his frantic dash from Switzerland to the UK to escape quarantine. Andy Wigmore, a spokesman for the Leave.EU campaign and self-confessed "bad boy of Brexit", was at the Wengen ski resort when he faced going into mandatory 14-day quarantine amid Swiss attempts to stop the spread of a more infectious strain of coronavirus that emerged in England. He is among hundreds of Britons who were said to have left Switzerland hours after the country imposed quarantine. Staff at another luxury resort in Verbier said at the weekend many British gue...

Only 12 Britons remain in quarantine in Swiss ski resort after hundreds flee Peter Beaumont © Provided by The Guardian Photograph: Fabrice Coffrini/AFP/Getty Images Only a dozen British tourists out of about 420 appear to be left in the Swiss ski resort of Verbier after an undisclosed number fled a mandatory quarantine, many under cover of darkness, risking a 10,000 Swiss franc fine (£8,300) and drawing widespread condemnation on social media. Asked about the runaway tourists, the Swiss health minister, Alain Berset, said: “We are aware of that. It’s obviously a proble...

Among those who fled the country last week was Andy Wigmore, one of the self-styled "bad boys of Brexit" best known for his work on the "Leave EU" campaign. Wigmore had flown to Wengen with his wife, two children and two of their friends, for a week's skiing and had been due to return home on Christmas Eve. They were on the slopes when they were warned by a local that the border would close at 6pm that evening, prompting them to drop everything and flee. "We had to get out of there or we'd have been stuck," he told

'I don't blame them for leaving': How British skiers fled Covid quarantine in Verbier While some chose to cross the border by train, others left in the dead of night, fearful that hoteliers would report them to police 28 December 2020 • 7:00pm They had fled a wet and gloomy UK for the fresh powdered snow and bright blue skies of Switzerland's finest ski resort. But in the end, perhaps unsurprisingly, British tourists discovered that it was mighty difficult to escape a global pandemic and instead found themselves making a frantic dash back home. Hundreds of Britons who had opted for a festiv...