“Sympathetic but unconcerned: what the world thinks about Brexit”

Apr 15, 2019 | Brexit

Tags: BBC, CNN

The traditional hotel flick through is one of the few times I watch actual live TV these days. In Madrid, funnily enough, there was no BBC World; so, for interest I checked out the news on the Spanish/French/Austrian/German/Russian and US (CNN) channels. And, guess what? No mention of Brexit, anywhere. Which goes to show the extent to which it’s our own, self-inflicted self-obsession. And, yes, I did get out of my room from time to time.

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