Beyond the Brexit horizon
If you are still looking up facts about the EU or our membership of it, you are fighting the wrong battle. We won that argument months, possibly years ago. It did us no good of course – for who is listening? Brexit is more a symptom than a cause. Sure, there are no doubt a few crazed ideologues who genuinely have strong feelings about the minutiae of cooperative government in a global twenty-first century, but the majority of the population whose votes made Brexit even possible, don't really care. They can't possibly be distressed about the EU and its governance because on the whole, like 99% of the population pre June 2016, they don't understand it. Most EU-related issues for which they profess disquiet are actually products of fake news and misunderstandings, some accidental, many deliberate. No. The bigger debate is the changing face of society and social interaction within it. What do we aspire to look like as a nation? How do we want to define ourselves and ea