Sometimes history is made by surprise. As with the fall of the Berlin Wall, it’s only afterwards that how the event came about becomes clear. Sometimes it’s blindingly obvious what’s coming, but you can’t see how to stop it.
No one, today, can miss the inexorable unfolding across the headlines and social media timelines of a transformed relationship between Britain and Europe. It is poignant that another turning point of history, the 100th anniversary of the end of the first world war, will be marked just as the Brexit talks lurch into a future that could threaten not just our prosperity but also the survival of the organisation that has been guarantor of Europe’s peace for half a century.
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