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...course I have principles, but if they don't fit the occasion, I can always find new ones. One thing seems certain: Brexit, in one form or another, is going to happen. Quite what Brexit will mean in practice is incredibly difficult to say. The referendum saw the country divide into what appear to be two tribes: Brexiters, and Remainers. There is no happy meeting ground...

...opened up the possibility of more devolution, which had previously been more or less closed off. A feasible alternative to independence is to push for more autonomy in the areas that are devolved and currently “Europeanised” – including agriculture, fishing and environmental policies. The UK could grant that and perhaps convincingly argue that the Scots were...

...open door policy has rendered it almost unrecognisable from the one that Bernd Lucke and his fellow euroscpetics founded in April 2013. Fishing on the right For one thing, a number of AfD politicians use firebrand rhetoric the type of which modern Germany has not heard before. Frauke Petry, arguably the party’s most well-known figure, claimed in January 2016 that there...