"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.
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.
Last week, a home office select comittee released a report urging the decriminalisation of sex workers. Yet in Hackney, London, a national sex worker safety charity has expressed "grave concern" due to "a seismic shift towards criminalisation" in the borough.
“Could it be possible to ban lobbying altogether, returning to true democracy, giving the facts and letting people decide and not corporations?”
"How can the UK be kept together with this degree of regional/national polarisation?"
The British government could decide which EU legislation should be discarded and which should be amended in the British interest.
If the nation is an imagined community as Benedict Anderson has argued, why place limits on our imagination?
