Brexit, Ireland, and the revenge of history
(World News UK)

Either Theresa May´s government falls, or Britain crashes out of the EU with no trade deal. May´s squalid deal with Northern Irish hardliners allows no alternative. Image: UVF mural in Belfast, E. Asterion/WikiCommons. My colleague Adam Ramsay has written persuasively about how - far from the myth of an insurgent victory over the elites - Brexit was led by `Establishment England` . It was connived, he says, by the powers that have run the country for centuries, combining an `anguished cry of imperial nostalgia, and a home-coming for disaster capitalism`. Yet those same English elites could not, in their wildest dreams, have imagined the true outcome of their campaign to Make Britain Great...