Europe

It was already an unthinking narrative with the events of the past ten years. But asking that question, this time especially, given the contents of the document being released and the speech just made, was particularly cloth-eared. The paper was about various vivid failures of the UK. Shown through the kind of international comparison that leaves clammy, bespectacled, ‘These Islands’ types all too obviously agitated and even more snide than normal…