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Grand Britannia
Joris Luyendijk (“Narcissist nation,” November) nails the ridiculous national grandiosity that lay behind our Brexit vote. Jeremy Paxman identified its root in his 2012 book Empire; post-empire, we British simply cannot bear to think of ourselves as just the same as our neighbours. My fear now is that we will bounce out of the European Union due to another British character flaw: we know that we’ve made a terrible blunder but we’re too embarrassed to admit it.