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I was tempted, but I would only find myself agreeing with their research depending on how I (mis)interpret their data based on my own prejudices.
Skimmed over the Alan Johnson essay, I quite liked his writing style.
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I was tempted, but I would only find myself agreeing with their research depending on how I (mis)interpret their data based on my own prejudices.
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The third piece is alright as well. Not as good as Johnson, but much better than the thing in The Register.
Having been written in March, however, it wasn't able to see how toxic the Remain camp would become. This reads a tragic underestimation:
The Guardian recently said that ordinary people’s Europhobia has been ‘pandered to and fed by Tory leaders’. So there’s a strange, fearful mob out there and the Tories are recklessly stirring it up. This week, a writer for New Europe magazine listed ‘Europhobia’ alongside ‘xenophobia, nationalism, Islamophobia and racism’, as values that are ‘alien to our postwar European culture’.
See how casually criticism of the EU, opposition to the Brussels oligarchy, is reduced to a phobia, an ism, something which goes against the ideals of Europe itself.
The rest engages with issues of democracy and neoliberalism which, again, I think everyone concedes. But the idea that leaving will solve them is, at best, hopeful, and at worse, counterproductive.
Yeah - that's what I figured. If you email them there is a very good chance they'll provide you with the anonymized data.