Not: ‘Are you for Europe or not for Europe?’ A question in democratic terms is something more sophisticated. And Europe without the UK, without the British spirit, cannot be Europe. Related: Peshmerga review – an intellectually gripping tribute to Kurdish fighters battling Isis“This is the tempo of history,” he says. We are meeting to discuss Peshmerga, a new documentary film about the Kurdish men and women fighting Isis in northern Iraq. So, even in the most traditional terms of political philosophy, you cannot say that a referendum is the embodiment of democracy.

Source: The Guardian July 14, 2016 14:48 UTC