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    A lecture in unflagging naivety

    Sep 30, 2021 4 minutes
    Will Norton

    I DO NOT KNOW if it is really true that coalminers once took caged canaries underground as detectors of noxious gases. Still, it is a useful and well-understood metaphor for an early warning of danger ahead.

    In Brexit Unfolded the first canary keels over on page 10, with only 273 left to go:

    The legal process for leaving the EU was defined in Article 50 of the Lisbon Treaty. This specified that an agreement for withdrawal would be negotiated That future relationship would be agreed subsequent to the Withdrawal Agreement, and by a different process … During the referendum, the Vote Leave campaign actually promised that the future terms would be

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