Journalist · Commentator · Political Editor, The Spectator
The Long View — fifty years watching Britain govern itself
There is no more divisive issue in British politics, or in British history. From the Channel and the Normans to de Gaulle, Thatcher and Farage, the long quarrel with that sweet enemy across the water. The European issue is not going away.
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Bruce Anderson was born in Orkney in 1949 and read History at Emmanuel College, Cambridge. He was political editor of The Spectator, wrote for the Daily Mail and The Independent, and continues to write the Spectator's Drink column.
This site is his attempt to do what the news cycle cannot: explain why things happened, and what they mean for where we are now.
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