Thought for the Week: Good neighbours

Ian Kirk-Smith reflects on the need to be both listeners and good neighbours

by Ian Kirk-Smith 1st July 2016

The result of the referendum has highlighted a difference between ‘direct democracy’ and ‘representational democracy’. More than seventeen million voted to leave the EU. No proposition has ever gained more votes in the democratic history of the United Kingdom – but the final result revealed a very Disunited Kingdom.