The pros and cons of a second EU referendum

George Soros, who has donated money for a campaign to lobby for a second referendum on Brexit.This week’s hearing in the European parliament on the impact of the Facebook-Cambridge Analytica scandal reinforced the shocking ways in which British democracy has been subverted (Political advertising online to be reformed, says UK data regulator, 4 June).Whistleblower Christopher Wylie said the Cambridge Analytica scandal was the canary in the coalmine of a new cold war emerging online.