"I am entitled to shout this from the mountaintop since I have been asking since the referendum was called: How are political decisions made in this country?"
Decisions to go to war don’t just analyze whether we can win. That is the easy part: the superiority of the western military machine makes this an absolute.
“All the wars in the former Yugoslavia started with a referendum.”
"If Brexit has one lesson for us, it’s that the status quo isn’t quite as unshakeable as we may think it is."
“Brexiteers’ sovereignty tapped into the colonial nostalgia and delusion of grandeur that is still part of its national consciousness.”
The European Union referendum exposes routine failures in Britain's exclusive and personalised ruling system.
"Hard as it sounds, Brexit should awaken us to the urgency of resurrecting the big questions, and once again contesting our future."
The Big Tent model has given way to a fight to the finish between ideologues and pragmatists, both further and further away from the “People” they are supposed to represent.
In Not The Chilcot Report (Head of Zeus books), Peter Oborne makes clear the erosion of trust between the British state and its public, as a result of the Iraq war.
“For my part, my sentiment is not just embarrassment, but shame. That we should choose the coward’s way of turning on the EU in its moment of need.”
The Chilcot report will, at long last, draw lessons from the Iraq war of 2003 – which many experts have concluded was Britain’s worst strategic blunder since the Suez débâcle of 1956.
We must, without ceding to the old myths of totalitarianism, restore meaning to the ideal of sovereignty.
