The Maze Runner

• Ed Vulliamy, “We are the 48%”: tens of thousands march in London for Europe, The Guardian, July 2, 2016

Thousands of anti-Brexit demonstrators marched from Park Lane to Westminster. Photo: Ray Tang/Rex/Shutterstock.

The Importance of Not Being Arcovazzi

Sincerely speaking, I’m not too worried about the English vote to leave the European Union, because I know that England will never leave Europe. England heroically fought against nazifascism almost alone in Europe during the World War II, and was able to put together both the Soviet Union and the United States under the sky of Europe. Therefore, no Europe can exist without England; we and they cannot but be united together in the same family, though sometimes unwillingly. Instead, as usual I’m much more worried about Arcovazzi who firmly wants to plant roots in Europe, aiming to degrade our beloved continent to the level of his thirld world banana republic. Arcovazzi, in fact, wants to apply the Constitution of his own republic to any “uncooperative” country he is interested in, aiming to simplify his powers worldwide. And he will never hesitate to invent dangers and emergency issues just to pass “Big Brother” paramilitary censorship outlaw laws. Like all his great (immortal) predecessors he exalts “autobiographical values” such as fascism, apoliticism, patriarchal authoritarianism, familism, cult of personality, gender and social inequality, feudalism, formalism, ritualism, cheatism, thievism, and so on – surely I’m forgetting something! Anyone who lives in his “divine farce” is doomed to fall ill, or even to die of shame. Arcovazzi’s world is beyond any horrific nightmare you can imagine. So you’d better reset your Mitteleuropean sense of humor and just say welcome back to England!

World War II. Future Queen of England Princess Elizabeth and future Countess of Snowdon Princess Margaret, serving in the Women’s Auxiliary Territorial Service, ca. early 1940s. Photo: fineartamerica.com.

Sons and Daughters

• Rhiannon Lucy Cosslett, Family rifts over Brexit: “I can barely look at my parents”, The Guardian, June 27, 2016

“I’m ashamed of my own mother”: many “millennials” feel that the older generation has selfishly voted against the interests of subsequent ones. Photo: Isabel Infantes/PA.

World War III

If at first all the States of Europe are not willing or able to join the Union, we must nevertheless proceed to assemble and combine those who will and those who can. Sir Winston Leonard Spencer-Churchill speaking at the University of Zürich on September 19, 1946

A demonstrator holds a placard during a protest against the outcome of the EU referendum. Photo: Justin Tallis/AFP/Getty Images.

All-Stars Europe

• James Tapper, Petition to hold second EU referendum reaches 2.5m signatures, The Guardian, June 26, 2016

Round two? House of Commons website crashed after experiencing a higher volume of simultaneous users than ever before. Photo: Isabel Infantes/PA.

Europe for facta concludentia

• Emma Graham-Harrison, Young people on the EU referendum: “It is the end of one world, of the world as we know it”, The Guardian, June 26, 2016

Young protesters demonstrate at the gates of Downing Street on Friday night. Photo: Isabel Infantes/PA.

One More Vote (One More Kiss)

Manchester, England: A TV reporter watches updates on his mobile phone as he waits for the referendum count at the Manchester Central Convention Complex on Friday night. Photo: Lindsey Parnaby/AFP/Getty Images.

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