18th November 2018

Who’s the loneliest - PM May or President Macron?  Here’s what Europe has to say:
Ouest-France, France’s best-selling paper, sympathises with May, calling her ‘courageous and remarkable’ because (unlike Cameron) she’s put country before Party. Italy is bewildered over Brexit. They say Europe should be united, not building walls like Trump. In Germany, Spiegal Online calls May ‘the lonely heroine of British theatre’. And Macron?  Despite troubles at home this week, he’s desperately ploughing a one-man furrow to pursue his global ambitions to be the first President of an idealised United States of Europe.  And me?  It’s a global clash between mass nationalism, each nation desperate to retain its individual identity but then prone to war against rivals, and leftist dreams of a communist-like single Earth - but with one totalitarian world leader fixated on his own power.  Even I’m feeling lonely at the prospect.