The internet gives us unprecedented freedom  

The Guardian’s Martin Kettle has an interesting article suggesting that the internet is having a profound cultural impact on the UK, leading to a “national mental disengagement with Europe”.   With the whole planet just a few clicks away, “it is hard to recall a time” he laments” when the national .... mind was less informed about or engaged with Europe than it is today.  .... Being in Europe has never impinged less.” Boo hoo. How tragic. Perhaps the left is about to discover a broader truth; the internet makes it impossible for elites to try to shape the planet, and the people on it, according to their own preconceived notions of how the world should be. The dispersed, democratic medium that is the internet doesn’t produce a shiny new Euro-identity because that shiny new...