Britain and Europe are living separate crises. Underneath, it's the same one | Timothy Garton Ash

Like Greece, Spain, even Germany, Britain has to take on the challenge of remaking its social model in a politics of austerity

What a week. While Britain lives one of the greatest political dramas in its postwar history, the continent is convulsed by a historic crisis of the eurozone. Here in Brussels, I keep flicking to and fro between the two, like someone trying to watch two cliffhanger Wimbledon finals simultaneously.

They are different matches, but they have much in common. At stake now...