The rise of populist nationalism: Rejecting the future for memories of past

The UK’s vote to leave the EU reflects a global trend in which people left behind by globalisation embrace a murky blend of nostalgia and nationalism, writes British historian Owen Matthews.

Britain’s Brexit vote was a victory of the old over the young, of the less educated over the educated, of nationalism over internationalism.

No wonder the presumptive US Republican presidential nominee, Donald Trump — who happened to be visiting one of his golf courses in Scotland when the result was announced on June 24 — was delighted.