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Lionel Shriver

The Irish border is the EU’s problem, not ours

12 May 2018

9:00 AM

12 May 2018

9:00 AM

In deference to public exhaustion, I’ve largely avoided Brexit in this slot. But a columnist’s output ought rightly to echo what she shouts at the television news. Big picture, the UK may have made an utter Horlicks of its putative withdrawal from the European Union because Britain should never have come to the EU with a begging bowl in the first place.

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