‘The Campaign to Rejoin the EU Must Never Stop’

In a world of bristling weapons and right-wing aggression, isolation from our neighbours is a sort of blasphemy against reason, writes AC Grayling

Every year since 2016, I have contemplated the moment my homeland shot itself in both feet: 23 June of that year, the Brexit Referendum day.

That day should be commemorated among the dies nefasti – days on which political and judicial decisions should not be taken because they threaten lunacy – as a warping and reversal in the flow of national fortunes. The Latin phrase hails from the Roman Republic, denoting days when bad outcomes are to be expected. Every 23 June is a paradigm instance.

The proof is all around us. It has been a bad, retrogressive decade since.

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