Tag: Cameron

  • Britain Has Voted Out, and Europa Is Weeping

    Britain Has Voted Out, and Europa Is Weeping

    This is the feeling of the axis of history tilting: not a smooth, mechanical turn, but the ground shifting and trembling beneath your feet. What even yesterday seemed so solid is now running through your fingers like silt. The possibilities that gave you hope have vanished behind a cloud, and now there is only a…

  • A Very Ugly Opposition: Anti-Semites Versus Islamophobes in British Politics

    A Very Ugly Opposition: Anti-Semites Versus Islamophobes in British Politics

    We all know that democratic politics is about building coalitions of different interest groups, bringing people together to hammer out a common position that serves the majority. The inverse of this tendency, equally if not more important, is carefully managing where the inevitable divisions caused by such coalitions fall. European history is replete with cases…