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Brexit, democracy and the sacred

There is no way back to anything resembling a united kingdom without some kind of sacrifice.

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The philosophical heart of Brexit is the unexamined relationship between democracy and the sacred. The crux of the UK’s problem is that there is something sacred about democracy but there is nothing democratic about the sacred; that’s why the first EU referendum is considered by many to be sacrosanct while a second risks being sacrilegious.