Brexit and the return of the Raj January 15, 2021, 10:12 AM IST
A former associate editor with the Times of India, Jug Suraiya writes two regular columns for the print edition, Jugular Vein, which appears every Friday, and Second Opinion, which appears on Wednesdays. His blog takes a contrarian view of topical and timeless issues, political, social, economic and speculative. LESS. MORE
The sceptic’s witticism that the reason the sun never set on the British empire was that even God did not trust an Englishman in the dark might well merit recalling in the context of a post-Brexit Britain which, at the stroke of midnight on the eve of the new year, kept its tryst with disunity from the European Union with PM Boris Johnson exulting in his country’s ‘freedom’ from the bureaucratic bondage of Brussels.