"If you don't read history you don't read what to be aware of."
Lecturing to a packed Hay Festival audience on his new book A Short History of Europe, Simon Jenkins interrogated the linked histories of revolution, war and treaties, interwoven over centuries to bring us to the 21st Century. "Boundaries are where the danger begins."
Simon Jenkins revealed Britain has left Europe 9 times since Rome and re-joined 8 times.
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