John Crace, “Just another day in Brexitland hell” (2018)

Covering the failed attempt to topple British PM Theresa May in a no-confidence vote on Deccember 12, 2018, John Crace compared the chaos over May’s Brexit deal to Dante’s hell. In the digital edition of the paper, the photo of the prime minister (above) was captioned: “Just another day in Brexitland hell for Theresa May.”

At the end of the piece, Crace comments, “The reality was that nothing had changed. Nothing had changed. May’s Brexit deal was no more likely to get through the Commons than it had been before the vote. If anything positions had hardened. The EU would not be coming to her rescue. All the future offered was more deadlock, more division. Dante was wrong. There was a tenth circle of hell and we were in it. Government as mindless light entertainment.”    —John Crace, “Tory headbangers save the Maybot—for the time being at least,” The Guardian (December 12, 2018)

Contributed by Nick Havely