Here are links to three more reflections worth your time on Brexit and its implications, all available from the religion and ethics page of the Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) website:
1 - The Fragility of Goodness: Brexit Viewed from the North East
by Anna Rowlands
"Perched on a stool at the end of the bar, just beneath an enormous screen showing Britain's Got Talent for those whose interests quite understandably lay elsewhere, I gave a talk on the way that Catholic social thought provides resources for thinking about the current migrant crisis. It was an evening when I was (unsurprisingly) cheered and heckled in equal measure: political theology as a fittingly extreme sport." Read more
2 - The Tragedy of Brexit Demands a Politics of Paradox
by Adrian Pabst
"An alliance of socialists and conservatives rejected the status quo of ever-greater globalisation and multiculturalism in favour of more self-government and the protection of settled ways of life...Thus the referendum result revealed a strong post-liberal thrust, albeit incoherent and inchoate. What is true is that such a paradoxical blending of conservative with socialist ideas could win a popular and parliamentary majority..." Read more
3 - After Brexit? The Referendum and Its Discontents
a contribution by Austen Ivereigh
"Offered a series of absurdly arbitrary choices - between economic benefit or sovereignty, rule from Brussels or self-rule, uncontrolled immigration and an Australian points system - over half of the country voted for change." Read more