Future historians will wonder what on earth the Tory party were thinking these last 14 years. We are in the midst of the most consequential period for a generation or more with western civilisation under threat, the fossil fuel age in its twilight years and totalitarian China continuing its rise.
The UK may seem rather like an inconsequential facet of this global picture. What can we do to alter these dynamics? Yet we shouldn’t forget that these islands were integral to the development of the rule of law, parliamentary democracy and more besides; and it was the exodus of people from this nation that helped to forge the United States, Australia, Canada and the trajectory of the western world. We matter.
Or, rather, we used
