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Given Brexit, it’s arguable that England has not suffered a more symbolic defeat since the Norman Conquest than the one Italy handed it today. Two soccer-mad nations faced each other, and one blinked. Italy bested England in the final of the Euro 2020 soccer tournament Sunday in London. The winner was determined by a penalty… Read more.
Fraught events are besieging England like wild weeds o’er the green grass of Wimbledon. Brexit was (and remains) unsettling enough. But then Islamists started terrorizing the place. Then Prime Minister Theresa May called a snap election, which she (and every pundit) thought would forge national unity and seal her mandate. Instead, it left the country more… Read more.
Not only is Catalonia presenting an equally compelling case for independence as Kosovo; it is doing so in a non-violent way that stands in commendable and instructive contrast to the violence that attended Kosovo independence. Alas, such is the vested (European) interest in holding Spain together (economically and politically) that, even if Catalonia were to… Read more.
Public disillusionment in Britain with the European Union is such that Prime Minister David Cameron felt compelled last Wednesday to pledge to hold an “in-out referendum” on UK membership if he is re-elected in 2015. The next Conservative manifesto in 2015 will ask for a mandate from the British people for a Conservative government to… Read more.
