The Irish Times columnist Fintan O'Toole had an interesting piece in his paper yesterday.
He writes about Prince Philip and how he was in fact a rootless cosmopolitan, about which the culture warriors of the right have ignored.
He "reminds the reader how during the Brexit debate the then prime minister Theresa May attacked those who "have more in common with international elites than with the people down the road."
O'Toole retells how May warned the electorate "if you believe you're a citizen of the world, you're a citizen of nowhere."
He explains how the story around Prince Philip allows us to see how bogus the whole anti-elitist, anti-cosmopolitan, anti-European, anti-immigrant discourse around Brexit really is.
A powerful final sentence: "Little England has always been for the little people."
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