For in England’s very long history as a nation state – much longer than most current political entities can claim – there is just one episode that is more thoroughly unhinged than Brexit. The Hundred Years War is one of the great criminal follies of European history: repeated English invasions of France that unleashed on innocent civilians mass murder, mass rape, theft on a staggering scale and an orgy of destruction. It brought nothing but horror and misery. And all in the failed pursuit of a mad idea rooted in elite concerns with face and honour.
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