Brexit has ignited a fire under Britain. It is altering forever the way we see ourselves. This has to be confronted boldly and in an open-minded way
A new generation is making the campaign for a People's Vote on Brexit the next insurgency for change in Britain.
The UK is in the midst of a multi-layered political and constitutional breakdown.
Brexiteers like Boris Johnson inhabit an outdated form of sovereignty. A new realm of power - regulation - demands shared authority and is the EU's greatest achievement. Britain helped create it and can't leave it.
Brexit has already begun. Any attempt to deny this and merely ‘stop Brexit’ will fail. To succeed we must overthrow the Brexit project with another, positive one.
Trumpism cannot be defeated by seeing it as merely irrational - nor by withdrawing from Europe.
Joining forces demands a democratic renewal that will dig deep into our cultures and our nations.
What are the Brexit answers – and what indeed are the right questions? Anthony Barnett’s new book, ‘Lure of Greatness’ triggers a lively exchange of opinion with Simon Maxwell.
"To say what is being done to him is wicked is not enough. Its consequences signal the potential implosion of a vast and beautiful country symbiotically joined to the Middle East, the Caucasus, Europe and Russia."
A response to a vigorous polemic against a core argument in the author's The Lure of Greatness
