Interesting thread with (mostly) interesting replies. Twitter, being Twitter, tended to forget how many thoughtful people were in the middle—or weren& #39;t even in the middle, but were still open to rational persuasion. https://twitter.com/v_j_freeman/status/1380797209181032452">https://twitter.com/v_j_freem...

It is grim and spooky that such a stark and painful example of the EU& #39;s structural and cultural faults should immediately follow the UK& #39;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.