IS TRADE IN TURMOIL A CHANCE FOR JUSTICE?

I admit: I’m conflicted.

Recently, I was on a march calling for a people’s vote on the final deal for Britain to exit the European Union (EU).

There were the usual young people, with faces painted in the blue and gold of the EU flag, and the now familiar chants of ‘Bollocks to Brexit’ and ‘EU, we love you’.

The first I was happy to go along with. The second – well, that was more troublesome.

I value cultural diversity and the social, labour, environmental and equality rights and protections or the peace that have come with EU membership. I am determined to fight the dog-whistle racism, xenophobia, lies, misinformation and sheer criminality that has underpinned and surrounded the pro-Brexit campaign.

But I’m also acutely aware of the negative power of the world’s biggest free