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Jonn Elledge is assistant editor of the New Statesman and editor of its sister site, CityMetric. He writes the Evening Call newsletter. You can find him on Twitter or Facebook.
This final, valedictory Evening Call was meant to be an example of what my colleagues have taken to calling my “howls of rage”. But rage doesn't feel the right register.
The Leavers are celebrating their victory – as the government admits quite how much paperwork you’ll now need to cross the Channel.
A Prime Minister who, more than any in recent history, values popularity may soon find himself as loathed as his predecessors.
As many as 300 UK citizens are thought to still be in Wuhan, the Chinese city at the centre of the coronavirus outbreak, which has been on lockdown since the end of last week.
The EU is bigger and scarier than the UK. And that has implications for trade negotiations.
The World Health Organisation will likely declare an international public health emergency this evening.
And yet, I can't shake the ennui.
It's the capacity, stupid.
I’ve spent years yelling at anybody who cares to listen that Brexit was a bad idea. If it turns out that I’m right about that, I won’t find any comfort in the fact.
It’s tempting to imagine that maybe if these people are finally talking about the dangers of climate change, we might actually move to take the steps required to fix this mess. And yet.