Is this the dawn? Have we reached the glimmer of a new beginning? Rishi Sunak’s about-turn on joining the European Union’s Horizon programme is a first note of sanity since Britain left the EU. Let it not be the last.
The story itself is miserable. Horizon is a €95.5bn ($102bn) continent-wide programme to give Europe’s scientific research community a critical mass to compare with that of the US or China. It acknowledges that advanced scientific research needs collaboration rather than competition. Britain’s universities had been