Seven years after the Brexit vote, Britain and the EU are still drifting apart

News Snapshot:

Open this photo in gallery: The European Union and Union Jack flags are flown outside the Houses of Parliament, in London, on Feb. 9, 2022.TOM NICHOLSON/Reuters Timothy Garton Ash is professor of European studies at Oxford University and a senior fellow at the Stanford University’s Hoover Institution. His latest book is Homelands: A Personal History of Europe. This week marked the seventh anniversary of Britain’s fateful vote, on June 23, 2016, to leave the EU – and the state of U.K.-EU relations is superficially encouraging and structurally depressing. Britain is like a sailing boat faffing around in the middle of...