The Bruges Group spearheaded the intellectual battle to win a vote to leave the European Union and, above all, against the emergence of a centralised EU state.
The American playwright Eugene O'Neill said "There is no present or future, only the past, happening over and over again, now", the philosopher George Santayana, wrote "Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it" while Karl Marx famously stated, "History repeats itself, first as tragedy, second as farce". Of course the idea that ...