An American editor friend of mine, in the process of describing some particularly labyrinthine processes of corporate publishing life sighed and said: ‘It’s a publishing meeting: no one gets to leave until everyone’s unhappy. It’s hard not to feel, whichever outcome you’d prefer, that Brexit is decidedly similar.
But while publishing as a whole is about as remain as you could possibly imagine – I only know of one ‘out’ Brexiteer in the business – there is remarkably little anxiety industry wide.