Theresa May continues difficult negotiations with the European Council at the summit after Brexit deal vote was postponed in her own country, Dec.14, 2018. NurPhoto/ Press Association. All rights reserved.
Max Weber gave his lecture ‘Politics as a Vocation’ in January 2019, almost 100 years ago, in Munich. Germany was going through political ferment after a crushing defeat, and was about to be humiliated further when its neighbours set the terms for their future relationship.
I don’t know whether Theresa May has read it. Somehow I can’t imagine her stretching out on the sofa, kicking off her crocodile shoes, drying any crocodile tears she might shed occasionally for those on the receiving end of her policies, and having a butcher’s.
