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Brexit and the return of sovereignty

The Brexit deal is the end of the beginning by Robert Tombs on Unherd Boris has succeeded where all others failed by Matthew Goodwin on Unherd The outcome of the Brexit deal is being interpreted according to where your loyalties…

Merry Christmas

Merry Christmas everyone. It feels strange, restrictive and humbling to be made housebound by nature gone bad in this apparently modern world devoid of big ideas of how to overcome it. Yet somehow we look to technology to stay in…

The Silence: Don Delillo

I have not read a novel by Don Delillo before but I was more than aware of his fame to be attracted by this apparent zeitgeist novella about what would happen if, god forbid, the wifi went down. There are…

Maurice Glasman: how the fates abandoned Boris

Maurice Glasman in his article in Unherd “how the fates abandoned Boris” nails the blindspot Labour suffered from in the last election”: the Tories understood that the long-term disaffection of Labour’s heartland voters with globalisation and abandonment combined with the…

Merry Christmas

It has been a roller coaster of emotions over the last 24 hours. After much anguish about travelling the length of the country to visit siblings during the Christmas relaxation window within the rules of bubblesI thought I had a…