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Officially my last day at @POLITICOEurope today before joining @TheAtlantic Mon. A wonderful 3 years - thanks to @KaminskiMK @cbudoffbrown @Stephen_G_Brown @kate_day @james_randerson @stephanfaris @CharlieCooper8 @NewsAnnabelle @Jack_Blanchard_ @herszenhorn @jacopobarigazzi...
Nostalgically looking through cuttings reveals the revolution in UK politics since 2016. We’ve gone from “Boris Johnson slaps down ‘part-Kenyan’ Barack Obama over Brexit push” (politico.eu/article/boris-…) to “Nigel Farage meets Donald Trump in London” (politico.eu/article/nigel-…)
From “Barack Obama: ‘Going it alone’ means no quick trade deal” (politico.eu/article/david-…) to “Trump backs no-deal Brexit... says trade deal with UK could be done ‘very quickly’” (politico.eu/article/donald…)
We’ve gone from “How David Cameron blew it” (politico.eu/article/how-da…) to “How the UK lost the Brexit battle” (politico.eu/article/how-uk…)
We’ve had radicalisation on both sides: 1) Remainers: “Britain’s middle-class Brexit Anxiety Disorder” (politico.eu/article/brexit…); 2) Leavers: “British Jacobins on the march in Brexit revolution” (politico.eu/article/boris-…)
Tories (Tories!) day dreaming, romantically, of their role in a French Revolution 2.0 (only over the other side of the channel): UK awaits its Brexit Napoleon (politico.eu/article/uk-bre…)
And the collapse in British-Irish relations, which may yet develop into a wider European crisis. 1) “The British and Irish are fighting again” (google.com/amp/s/www.poli…). 2) “Brexit’s Ulster Problem” (politico.eu/article/brexit…)
And we finish with: “May’s Brexit Schadenfreude. London & Dublin fear Brexit veering inexorably to no-deal” (politico.eu/article/theres…) and a cabinet minister’s warning that we’re about to drive the car into the wall, but it’ll be the wall’s fault: politico.eu/article/david-…. The end.
Now, for journalism’s sake, let’s hope the next three years are just as, er, fun to cover 👀 @prashantrao @helenlewis @YasmeenSerhan @AdrienneLaF @JeffreyGoldberg @RachelDonadio @IsaacDovere
