The British Failure

Quotation:

On December 30 an editorial in London’s Sunday Times spluttered:

After more than four decades in the EU we are in danger of persuading ourselves that we have forgotten how to run the country by ourselves. A people who within living memory governed a quarter of the world’s land area and a fifth of its population is surely capable of governing itself without Brussels.

From the review by Hari Kunzru (NEW YORK REVIEW OF BOOKS, February 21, 2019)  of

Heroic Failure: Brexit and the Politics of Pain by Fintan O’Toole.