Diary of a Dissenter: A Week From My Window

‘[Our] sense of our homogeneity and difference from others [is] precisely what the European Union, in my view, should be doing its best to undermine.’ — Peter Sutherland, 2012

The Murder-Suicide of European Nations

SATURDAY

I have never seen the blackberries ripen so early as they have this year, after six weeks of virtually continuous rain. I arrived down to Maugherow on Thursday, the first time since we arrived back from Andalusia three weeks ago, with a view to tidying up the garden and preparing to store away the spuds, on…