This might not feel like the moment to go on about Brexit, but Brexit goes on whether we are feeling it or not. This virus has turned us all into caring neighbours | George Monbiot Read moreEven before coronavirus, the December deadline looked fanciful. Eurosceptics will claim vindication if coronavirus plunges the EU into an existential crisis, but history might also judge them harshly. Coronavirus has not just bumped Brexit down the political agenda, it makes the whole project look parochial and self-indulgent. Britain’s EU membership expired on 31 January, but the doctrine that cast Europe as a national affliction should be buried alongside it.

Source: The Guardian April 01, 2020 05:00 UTC