A British Tragedy in One Act
In a sense, Brexit began in the 1940s, with Winston Churchill and his vision of Europe. And the outcome recalls one of Churchill’s more famous aphorisms: “The trouble with committing political suicide is that you live to regret it.”
OXFORD – Thursday night is said to have been momentous for those who campaigned to leave the European Union and turn Britain’s back on the twenty-first century. On that, at least, I can agree. As Cicero wrote: “O wretched and unhappy was that day.”