{"id":8790,"date":"2018-12-19T11:37:24","date_gmt":"2018-12-19T10:37:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.desertsun.co.uk\/blog\/?p=8790"},"modified":"2018-12-19T11:37:24","modified_gmt":"2018-12-19T10:37:24","slug":"sam-hooper-on-brexit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.desertsun.co.uk\/blog\/8790\/","title":{"rendered":"Sam Hooper on Brexit"},"content":{"rendered":"

This, on the subject of Brexit, is an excellent post<\/a>:<\/p>\n

Spare a thought for poor Ryan Heath of Politico EU. He simply finds Brexit \u2013 and specifically Britain\u2019s ongoing debate about the nature and timing of our departure from the European Union \u2013\u00a0too boring to deal with anymore.<\/p>\n

…<\/p>\n

I\u2019m very sorry that Ryan Heath finds Brexit so boring, and one country\u2019s lonely attempt to address the preeminent challenge of the early 21st century a bothersome distraction from the true job of a Politico journalist \u2013 breathlessly reporting court gossip and revealing who was spotted dining with who at whichever Michelin-starred restaurant in Brussels or Strasbourg.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

And:<\/p>\n

If Ryan Heath spent less time airily declaring his boredom, he might dwell on the fact that Brexit \u2013 in all its halting, stop-start awkwardness \u2013 is the first significant attempt by any country to answer the question of how a modern nation state can reconcile the technocratic demands of global trade with the need to preserve meaningful democracy. On this key question, Britain is currently the laboratory of the world. No other first-tier country has dared to touch the subject with a ten-foot bargepole.<\/p>\n

…<\/p>\n

Ryan Heath thinks that Britain has made a fool of herself by taking the plunge and voting for Brexit in an attempt to address these looming challenges. That may be so. But what has any other country done to address the pressing challenge of adapting democracy to work in a globalized world? What has the United States done under Trump? Germany under \u201cleader of the free world\u201d Angela Merkel? Or France under the establishment\u2019s beloved Emmanuel Macron?<\/p>\n

It is easy to laugh and cast judgments at Brexit\u2019s many pitfalls and the\u2026significant intellectual and personality flaws of those who claim to be leading and speaking for it. But it is much less funny when one is forced to acknowledge that other countries still have their heads in the sand and are not even attempting to answer these increasingly existential questions, despite facing exactly the same democratic pressures and rifts as Britain.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Go and read the whole thing<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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