A tale of two elections and three referendums

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A tale of two elections and three referendums

By Alper Ali Riza

‘It was the best times, it was the worst times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of light, it was the season of darkness, it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair…’ is how Charles Dickens describes the zeitgeist in Paris and London at the time of the French Revolution in A Tale of Two Cities. It is also how the world feels in these extraordinary times after Brexit and Trump.

‘We...

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