Joris Luyendijk is an author and the former writer of the Guardian's Banking Blog
February 2024
The Trading Game by Gary Stevenson review – cashing out
A former City trader looks back in anger in this darkly funny account of eye-watering bonuses and emotional detachment
September 2019
Europe now
Europe isn’t the enemy – demonising us is undermining Britain
Joris Luyendijk
The Tories used to worry about being the nasty party. Now they’re making Britain a difficult country to like, says the author Joris Luyendijk
January 2019
A polite request from Europe: wake us up when you know what you want from Brexit
Joris Luyendijk
Excuse us if we can’t get excited about the ‘meaningful vote’. From the outside it looks like more paralysis and delusion, says author Joris Luyendijk
November 2018
The panel
Theresa May’s Brexit deal – what will it mean?
Faiza Shaheen, Gina Miller, Joris Luyendijk and Henry Newman
Panellists Faiza Shaheen, Gina Miller, Joris Luyendijk and Henry Newman react to the news of a draft agreement
May 2018
I miss Britain – but Brexitland could never be my home
Joris Luyendijk
Brexit horror stories – like the ex-mayor of Ipswich denied citizenship – remind me why we’ve returned to the Netherlands, says the Dutch journalist Joris Luyendijk
January 2018
Europe must wake up to the drastic consequences of a hard Brexit
Joris Luyendijk
The Netherlands knows what it will lose if the UK crashes out. It is less than the price of giving Britain a sweet deal, writes Dutch journalist Joris Luyendijk
December 2017
Suck it up, Britain: now you know how to negotiate with the EU
Joris Luyendijk
The breakthrough in Brexit talks is thanks to the UK recognising its place as the junior partner, says the Dutch journalist Joris Luyendijk
November 2017
No wonder John Redwood backs Brexit. He will make money out of it, after all
Joris Luyendijk
Is the real Redwood the man talking up Brexit, or the one telling investors to get their money out of Britain, asks the banking journalist Joris Luyendijk
September 2017
With a liar like Boris Johnson as foreign secretary how can Europe trust Britain?
Joris Luyendijk
The UK depends upon its reputation for honesty, fairness and respect for the law. Johnson’s Brexit bill pronouncements are testing anglophiles’ patience, says author Joris Luyendijk
The UK’s faith in a ‘sweet Brexit’ isn’t just deluded – it’s dangerous
Joris Luyendijk
Even remainers believe that it’s in the EU’s interest to treat Britain kindly. But there can be no special deals if Europe’s single economy is to survive, writes author Joris Luyendijk
Stupid or duplicitous, this ‘leak’ tells EU nationals their status in Britain is perilous
Joris Luyendijk
It’s clear that EU citizens can no longer plan their futures in the UK, says the nonfiction author Joris Luyendijk
June 2017
Brexodus has begun. We EU nationals know staying on is too big a gamble
Joris Luyendijk
Who would sacrifice EU citizenship for life in a country we now know could turn on us at any moment? It makes sense to get ahead of the returning herd
Jailing Barclays bankers won’t save us from another financial crash
Joris Luyendijk
Nine years after the global economy almost imploded, bankers are finally in the dock. But we are still at great risk of a banking calamity
Even this election didn’t shake Britain’s Brexit denial. Europe must act alone
Joris Luyendijk
Theresa May’s failure won’t return the UK to reality-based politics. It’s up to the EU27 to impose their own solution on the looming negotiations
May 2017
Theresa May’s Brexit Britain can no longer be considered a serious country
Joris Luyendijk
As the UK’s delusions and denial continue, continental Europeans are rethinking all those stereotypes about a liberal island set in a sea of reason and pragmatism
April 2017
The doom-mongers got it wrong: the centre is holding in Europe
Joris Luyendijk
The populist explosion hasn’t happened, and the EU – while still not out of the woods – seems safe. There is reason for cautious optimism
March 2017
Unlike a divorce, the terms of Brexit aren’t up for discussion
Joris Luyendijk
What is being negotiated between Britain and the European Union is not the end of a marriage. It’s a self-inflicted downgrade
The alarmist Brexit press got everything wrong about the Dutch elections
Joris Luyendijk
Most of Fleet Street is so wilfully myopic it was unable to see even the sliver of good news for its own ignorant case in the defeat of Geert Wilders
In the Netherlands, we’ll halt the march of Geert Wilders’ populists
Joris Luyendijk
However well his anti-EU, anti-Islam and anti-immigration platform does in the general election, Wilders will not get to lead a government – or a Nexit
November 2016
In Brexit Britain, being a foreigner marks me out as evil
Joris Luyendijk
Since the referendum, the tabloids have whipped up racist feeling by creating subtle links between non-natives and crime – and the government has done little to counter it
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