Pretending we can re-enact the Referendum tragedy with a different final act is monumental self-deception – instead we Welsh, Scots, and particularly English must ask – as the Irish have – who are we?

The Brexiteers believe in a myth of British exceptionalism. It's time they stopped telling themselves fairy tales.

Returning to Wales, David Marquand finds that devolution has created a political community interestingly open to new possibilities.

There are glaring absences at the heart of the UK elections contest. The new preface to his ‘Essay on Britain, now’ - by one of Britain’s leading political thinkers tells us why. Remarkably, it suggests ways in which to free ourselves from the trap we are in.

Britain needs a national conversation on its imperilled political and moral culture. Has the Labour leader had the first word? 

A retreat from the present unsatisfactory half-way house to a Gaullist ‘Europe des Patries’ would be an act of reactionary vandalism.