What its second anniversary tells us about Brexit

Anniversaries matter, both in our personal lives and in the way that societies and nations define themselves. What we do and don’t celebrate or commemorate, and how, and what we feel about it are all part of collective identity and history.Brexit is replete with anniversaries – of the referendum in 2016, of the triggering of Article 50 in 2017, of the end of the transition period in December 2020 and, most obviously, of the day the UK left the EU on 31 January 2020. The second anniversary of the