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Brexit Revisited

Virtually everyone beyond Britain fell asleep on the night of June 23 in the belief that the result of a referendum on EU Membership in the country was already decided. In fact, in Nick Clegg’s (former) seat of Sheffield Hallam, he reported in a BBC interview that people had voted for Brexit for the fun of it; that Brexit wouldn’t happen. However, then came the results; unlike other elections,...

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The ‘Landslide’

  With the call of ‘It is eight o’clock’, the Exit Estimates were released; the projection by Ipsos Sopra-Steria for France-24 showed the biggest political upset in generations. Macron slew the Socialists on April 24th and the Far-Right on May 8th. The expected Conservative Comeback didn’t happen. With support climbing for the youngest leader of France since Napoleon; Emmanuel Macron was on...

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