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Michel Barnier, "The door is open, it will the sovereign choice of the UK (to rejoin the EU), as it was the sovereign choice for the UK to have Brexit itself" "We have so many ways of acting together, to increase the co-operation between the UK and the EU, and in the current world which is unstable, being together makes us all stronger" My view: Barnier offers the clarity Lisa Nandy couldn’t: Britain can choose to seek EU membership again. Accession would require agreement from EU members, but deciding whether to make that case is a matter of political will. Nobody pretends rejoining would simply restore our old terms or resolve every domestic problem. But voters deserve an honest discussion about what closer integration could deliver, what obligations it would involve, and whether it would improve their lives. The referendum was an exercise in democracy, not an instruction to stop thinking forever. Britain is entitled to assess the results, reconsider its direction and choose a different future. With the door open, we need politicians willing to make a case for walking through it.

Left: Nigel Farage lays a wreath at the Cenotaph for Remembrance Day Right: One of the 34 boys at Dulwich college accusing Nigel Farage of racism, Peter Ettedgui, "Farage repeatedly coming up to me and knowing that I am Jewish saying 'Hitler was right' and 'gas them' which was frequently followed by a hissing sound of escaping gas" My view: Something is deeply broken in our democracy when allegations of repeated racist and antisemitic abuse can remain unresolved while the politician accused takes his place among those representing the nation at the Cenotaph. Peter Ettedgui alleges that Nigel Farage repeatedly targeted him with antisemitic taunts invoking Hitler and the gas chambers. Farage denies the allegations. But political prominence should bring greater scrutiny and accountability, rather than allowing questions of this gravity to fade into the background. If Ettedgui’s account is true, the contradiction is appalling: someone who allegedly mocked the victims of Nazism now publicly honours those who fought against it. The passage of time cannot, by itself, resolve that contradiction. Remembering the fallen must mean carrying their lessons into our politics. When we honour the fight against fascism while treating allegations of antisemitic hatred as an inconvenience, we risk reducing remembrance to a ceremony whose moral meaning we refuse to uphold.