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    Learning to love Big Brother

    Nov 26, 2020 3 minutes

    've always thought of myself as British rather than English, but lately I’ve started to wonder. A while ago I was having dinner with a senior editor on one of our great liberal publications. He asked me how I voted in the Brexit referendum. Leave, I answered. He looked startled — I was a very rare specimen among its contributors — and asked why. “Because I believe in sovereign nation-states in charge of their own legal systems and borders,” I replied. He nodded and the conversation moved on. Well, be

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