The moment of the referendum does not have a clear meaning – it is almost immediately lost in contention and confusion. But neither does ‘England’. It emerges as a divided thing, bitterly split, not just between Leavers and Remainers but between the England of the big multi-cultural cities on the one side and the England of the villages and towns on the other. And so Brexit must inevitably exit its own condition, into mythological time. And it must acknowledge the true gods: the gods of international capital.
