Alumni and guests are invited for a talk by Dr Paul Flather who is a fellow at Mansfield College, Oxford. He will be delivering another lecture on Brexit. The discussion will be held instead of our regular May event and we will not have our regular meet-up in May. 

The very strange story of Brexit: what now for the UK and for Europe 
The talk will explore the puzzle about how the British people managed to vote in favour of a policy that would seem to be against their long-term interests and how in doing so they defy their own political class, and look towards future scenarios for Europe and for the UK.

Dr Paul Flather is Secretary–General of the Europaeum, an association of leading European Universities, and Fellow of Mansfield College, Oxford, where he is head of the Senior Common Room. He was the founding Secretary-General/CEO of the Central European University (1990-1994), originally set up in Budapest, Prague, and Warsaw by George Soros, and then Director of International and External Affairs for Oxford University (1994-2000). He has worked at the BBC, Times Newspapers, and served as Deputy Editor of the New Statesman.  He worked with Charter 77 and other dissident movements in Central Europe in the 1980s, and has worked with cultural and race equality groups in the UK for over 40 years.