How a William Hogarth painting predicted Brexit 250 years ago

British feelings of isolationism, anger and complacency are nothing new – Hogarth was busy skewering them in 1748. He also understood what today’s Brexiters do not: the country’s power relies on an international economyIt’s the economy, stupid. Or is it? The British people seem unimpressed by airy liberal issues such as jobs and money as, in the looming EU referendum, they head for an assertion of national sovereignty that flies in the face of all those scary warnings of