“Jovian” French President Emmanuel Macron spelt out this week, for anyone with lingering doubts, that membership of the European Union is incompatible with national sovereignty and independence – and that the bloc should assume an imperial role. In deference to the new Sun King, newspapers in all of the 28 current member states dutifully printed his proclamation on Monday, including Britain's liberal sneer-sheet The Guardian. Macron began by repeating the common but false claim that the EU, established in 1993 as a successor to the European Economic Community (which only contained NATO members), had kept the peace in Europe since the end of WWII. Then he turned on those, like Britain, daring to reassert national self-determination. “What country can act on its own in the face of aggressive strategies by the major powers?” Macron asked, seemingly ignoring the fact that three of the great military and economic powers are currently EU members. “Who can claim to be sovereign,

Continuing a long British tradition of political protest, Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn was 'egged' on Sunday. A man described in news reports as a “pro-Brexit protester” caught up with 'Jezza' outside the Finsbury Park Mosque and slapped a raw egg down on his head, with the words: “When you vote, you get what you vote for.” The protester was arrested for assault. The media was quick to assure us that the Labour leader was unharmed after his ordeal. Labour shadow home secretary Diane Abbott ramped up the hyperbole when she tweeted: “He punched Jeremy very hard. He happened to have an egg in his palm. But it could have been a knife.” But the sticky situation Corbyn found himself in was no more than what he deserved after selling out his principals, his friends and his country twice last week in a vain attempt to appease factions in his party who want him out. First he declared his support for a re-run of the 2016 referendum on leaving the European Union,