Frank Coughlan: 'British have form with ruinous exits'

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Frank Coughlan

Sick of it? Aren't we all. But that doesn't change the fact that we have to stay engaged with Brexit because, like it or not (that would be an emphatic not), history tells us that whenever our beloved neighbour catches cold, we invariably take to the leaba with something more serious.

But I'll leave the in-and-outs of backstops and imponderables, like why Arlene Foster loathes Free Staters with such suicidal resolve and how could Jacob Rees-Mogg be taken seriously in any century later than the 18th, to those who have the gifts to work them out.