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A rotten windfall

1 September 2016

1:00 PM

1 September 2016

1:00 PM

It’s strange that, even now, the Brexit vote is routinely referred to as an expression of anger or frustration — as if the most easily baffled half of the population had voted in response to forces they could not understand. In fact, the result of the 23 June referendum seems to look wiser with every week that has passed.

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