My brain hurts a lot

This week: the British education system makes me ashamed to be British, no we should absolutely not bring back imperial measurements, and a line down the middle of China.

Five years ago today, Britain voted to leave the European Union. There are many things that followed from this, most of them bad, but one of the more trivial is what it did to the identities of those of us in the minority that actually considered ourselves European. Before the referendum, I had a sense – vague, unexamined, but real – that the continent …