Britain’s many faces | Katharine Whitehorn

Brexit means we will once more be an island alone, all the more reason to celebrate our mixed and multicultural heritageWe may be leaving the European Union soon, but our involvement with it, good or bad, goes back to just about every era, and it is not especially a matter of drinking each other’s wine or swapping holidays, but the history of each other’s victories or alliances and shifts of people.My closest friend at school married one of what biologist Peter Medawar called “