{"id":378302,"date":"2025-08-27T18:36:11","date_gmt":"2025-08-27T18:36:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/378302\/"},"modified":"2025-08-27T18:36:11","modified_gmt":"2025-08-27T18:36:11","slug":"the-polycrisis-theory-of-brexit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/378302\/","title":{"rendered":"The polycrisis theory of Brexit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-component=\"paragraph\" class=\"css-1l5amll e1y9q0ei0\">Parliament has lost interest, but Britons still devour books about Brexit. Those books tend to belong to one of two schools. One is the Great Man\u2014or rather, inadequate boys\u2014theory of history, exemplified by \u201cAll Out War\u201d, by Tim Shipman. It argues that the divorce was propelled by the betrayals, blunders and petty feuds at the court of David Cameron, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.economist.com\/briefing\/2016\/02\/27\/the-brexit-delusion\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">whose campaign<\/a> was hopelessly focused on warning of economic disaster.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Parliament has lost interest, but Britons still devour books about Brexit. Those books tend to belong to one&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":378303,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5226],"tags":[58611,802,748,4829,2000,299,5187,1699,4884,391,16,15,26],"class_list":{"0":"post-378302","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-brexit","8":"tag-bagehot","9":"tag-brexit","10":"tag-britain","11":"tag-columns","12":"tag-eu","13":"tag-europe","14":"tag-european","15":"tag-european-union","16":"tag-great-britain","17":"tag-opinion","18":"tag-uk","19":"tag-united-kingdom","20":"tag-world"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115102180529563891","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/378302","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=378302"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/378302\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/378303"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=378302"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=378302"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=378302"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}