The Green Eggs Report for June 2016 is now available.

Daniel Simu - 2016-07-01 22:59:21 UTC - Parent #

Who wants to speculate why 2016 has been such a quiet year so far?

7b_wizard - 2016-07-02 14:22:36 UTC - Parent #

Silence is golden?

bad1dobby - 2016-07-05 15:09:08 UTC - Parent #

Did you see that Fintan O'Toole in The Irish Times used a juggling analogy for the whole Brexit debacle?

Did you ever see a slightly drunk man trying that trick with the tablecloth? He thinks he can whip the cloth off the table with a fast, clean snap, but leave all the crockery perfectly intact. He gives a sharp tug and stands back with a triumphant flourish as the plates and glasses come flying to the ground and shatter all around him.

That’s what Brexit is like. Those who have driven it have successfully pulled the cloth off the table – the underlying fabric of modern Britain has been whipped away with a shocking suddenness.

They stand in triumph, sure that they have pulled off the trick of removing a whole layer of political reality without disturbing all the family tableware. They have yet to notice that so much that was on the table is now at their feet, broken, perhaps irreparably.