Interesting thread with (mostly) interesting replies. Twitter, being Twitter, tended to forget how many thoughtful people were in the middle—or weren't even in the middle, but were still open to rational persuasion. https://twitter.com/v_j_freeman/status/1380797209181032452

It is grim and spooky that such a stark and painful example of the EU's structural and cultural faults should immediately follow the UK's departure. As if God wanted the country to acquire immunity to returning. I hope that this disaster—and Brexit itself—lead to genuine reform.

I did very-well-thank-you out of the EU. It paid for my MSc; before my last academic employer closed down, it was about to pay for a research assistant to work for me; after my employer closed, it paid me to do research for the Commission. I still believed we had to go.