Choosing post-Brexit partners - Time to step out of British shadow

A GOOD phrase often has, like victory, many fathers. 

Voltaire and Machiavelli — others too — are credited with the pragmatic response when the priest ministering at their deathbed asked if, in view of their limited prospects on this earth, they wished to renounce the devil: “This no time to be making enemies,” came the unsentimental reply.

Irrespective of who made it, that dying-breath defiance may be a pragmatic position this small country might consider as Britain muddles towards Brexit.