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Brexit Win
Yasmin Alibhai-Brown
‘The poor hated the poor, natives hated outsiders, settled migrants hated new incomers, the North hated the South, non-Londoners hated London.’
Kettle Holes
Melissa Febos
‘They knelt at my feet. They crawled naked across gleaming wooden floors.’
Crocodiles and Fairy Dust
Janice Galloway
‘I admit the sneaking feeling, just now and then, that those who govern us think we’re the problem.’
The Politics of English Forgetfulness
Madeleine Bunting
‘Brexit demonstrates one of England’s most trusted strategies of power: deliberate forgetfulness.’
Free will and Brexit
Julian Baggini
‘Whether or not you think 23 June was a great day for Britain and Europe, it was a very bad one for freedom.’
The Price of Freedom, Including VAT
Xiaolu Guo
‘I had lost my native country, now I was going to lose a continent.’
Why We’re Post-Fact
Peter Pomerantsev
‘We are living in a ‘post-fact’ or ‘post-truth’ world. Not merely a world where politicians and media lie – they have always lied – but one where they don’t care whether they tell the truth or not.’
Putting Down Strangers
Adam Thorpe
‘Home, after all, is a continual plangent threnody in the often uninterpretable clamour of being an immigrant.’ Adam Thorpe on Brexit.
