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Ian McEwan

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2019-10-01

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2019-10-01

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1. “My position is perfectly clear. I'm not writing a balanced piece here. Satire doesn't depend on taking in accounts from both sides. I think the referendum was a foolish mistake. The idea of deciding our future on the basis of a first past the post poll on something of such profound constitutional consequences and Obviously huge effects on our agriculture, science, everything that we can think of trade, security. You can't imagine anything more profound. At the very least than I wouldn't even have accepted this at the time, it should have been on a supermajority. You don't change your constitution on a couple of percentage differences.”

   2019-10-01 · Intelligence Squared · Satire, Boris and Brexit with Ian McEwan and Razia Iqbal · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source