“Island of strangers” wasn’t even the worst part. The ‘incalculable’ harm bit - in the intro to the white paper - and the ‘squalid chapter’ were even worse. And later, his ‘understanding’ the far right rioters outside asylum seekers’ hotels was a real low point.

For any interested, my thoughts on the whole shortlist are here: profadamroberts.substack.com/p/booker-sho...

I remember particularly liking this bit of the Thames Estuary Airport feasibility study at the time.

Mostly because I would have liked to have been the person who got to write it, not the one who had to underline it for Boris Johnson in fucking crayon.

This kind of thing, btw, is one of the reasons I think it's right to use the (admittedly ugly) word 'Brexitism': there are multiple recurring threads linking Brexit to post-Brexit politics/ culture wars. So many things which aren't about Brexit per se are in/directly connected to it. 3/3

Dig a little deeper, and the founder of History Reclaimed co-edits 'Briefings for Britain' (formerly Briefings for Brexit), and he and several members/ contributors to both were members of the 2018 'Brains for Brexit' group (if anyone remembers that): www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article.... 2/3