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'Mary Poppins Returns' in panic, but can she and Lin-Manuel Miranda fix Brexit?

There is only one way to solve the intractable mess known as Brexit and her name is Mary Poppins. And Lin-Manuel Miranda, the un-Trumpian personification of sunny American benevolence, is the ideal fantasy sidekick.

Britain slowly is coming to terms with the reality that there is no orderly, mutually agreeable way to exit the European Union, actually no process to reflect the democratically expressed clear intent of the British people without causing utter chaos, especially in Ireland, because the British people had no idea what they were doing. Enabled by the former Prime Minister David Cameron - who reportedly set in motion his whole referendum nonsense while eating pizza at Chicago's O'Hare Airport - they boxed such leaders as current

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