It’s done. A triumph of dogged negotiation by May then, briefly, Johnson, has fulfilled the most pointless, masochistic ambition ever dreamed of in the history of these islands.
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Goodbye, Britain. Brexit is done. It’s over. Some Britons are waving Union Jacks, and public buildings are illuminated in red, white, and blue. Having dramatically opened up a new space for political maneuver, the country is now celebrating its achievement.
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LONDON — A history teacher at my school believed that every great event in the past should be approached on the basis of a tripartite analysis of its causes, pretexts, and results.
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The idea that British Prime Minister Boris Johnson is a man of the people, a tribune of the common man fighting the established elites…
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LONDON — I first visited Sri Lanka as Britain’s development minister in the 1980s, during the early stages of the vicious war between guerrilla fighters…
Read MoreJ’ai trop d’admiration pour l’intelligence et les capacités des Britanniques pour sous-estimer le risque qu’ils font courir à la construction européenne et j’ai trop d’amour…
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LONDON — Recently, in the comforting gloom of a half-empty cinema, I found myself subjected to an advertisement for the country in which I live.
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