If you think Britain is angry and divided, look at the continent | Timothy Garton Ash

Now is not the time for knee-jerk responses to the Brexit vote. Better to watch the shifting jigsaw and make the right move

Brexit is a nightmare from which we are trying to awake. What a weird week this has been. On trips to the Netherlands and Portugal, where I am now, continental friends hug me as if there has been a tragic death in the family. A longtime Serbian friend says, “Now you know what it felt like to be us, explaining that not all Serbs think that way … ”

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