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Trapped on Brexit Island

How did we get here, and how do we escape? Transforming education would be a start.

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Anti Brexit People's Vote March, London, June 23 2018. Credit: Flickr/David Holt. CC BY 2.0.

Stuck in a political twilight zone where the laws of causality are suspended, people stagger around in a kind of waking sickness—a disease whose most worrying symptoms are the mental gymnastics which imagine Brexit as a success and Boris Johnson as Prime Minister. Do you ever think to yourself what the hell is happening? Do you see the Johnson come-what-may-Brexit on the horizon?