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A decade of magical thinking since Brexit has taught me that it’s always OK to hope for better | Zoe Williams

The world has changed enormously since 2016, yet the pro-Brexiters believe remainers like me have no chance of achieving a closer relationship with the EU.

✦ Extractive summary — built from the sources' own reporting•From 1 source•1 min read•Updated November 2, 2026, 5:01 PM UTC
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  • Nobody get too excited – just because Andy Burnham….
  • None of it magically becomes true, don’t be silly.

All such nonsense, all delivered with such conviction, by such a wide variety of sources, many of them self-describing as impartial, that in the end you just surrender to it.

It’s more that you come to accept that everyone else talks nonsense now.

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