Technical veil masks [sic] ideological binaries*

The Graun has evidently had to decide what to cover first, post-virus, and has toyed with both Brexit and climate change to display virtue and rebuke neighbouring social classes.

Today it seems to be Brexit again:

The British government has said there is “a serious risk” that the European Union will fail to meet its duties to protect the rights of UK nationals living in the bloc, in the latest sign of tensions over Brexit....the government was “already seeing several instances of misapplication of the withdrawal agreement”, which, although “localised incidents”, made it harder for British nationals to exercise their rights.

It all seems bit tit-for-tat willy-waving, if you'll pardon the mixed biological metaphors:

[There is] the lack of official campaigns in EU member states to raise awareness about new requirements for UK nationals – a stipulation under the treaty...France and Spain, home to large numbers of UK migrant workers and retired people, are deemed not to have done anything proactive to raise awareness among British residents...The Czech Republic and Hungary have published information that is thought to be confusing or out-of-date, without translation into English. In contrast – the government says – information on the settlement scheme for EU nationals in the UK is available in other EU languages...In Austria and Slovenia the government is concerned British nationals have only six or seven months to secure their rights, whereas EU nationals in the UK have 27 months...Other EU member states, such as Malta, Cyprus and Slovakia, are faulted for relying on face-to-face meetings with local officials, rather than offering people the option to secure their status online...Gove complains that some countries have still not provided detail on what their application processes will entail.

EU retaliation in the form of 'news' items and useful idiocy might have come in first, as is often the case. The Graun has a huge graphic illustrating different volumes of trade with different countries. I should think GRaunistas are weary of graphs they don't understand, but still, the copy explains it all for them:

So Britain – at least on current trade terms [ie while still in the EU] – has more to lose from the failure of the EU talks than it has to gain from the success of the US talks [assuming volumes of trade remain the same as they are now].

And there's the return of the JIT tomato, or, in this case lettuce:

Increased customs procedures and tariffs would make [current European]  trade more difficult, and getting fresh lettuces across the Atlantic [!] has its own challenges...The biggest component of EU-UK trade is imports of goods, including fresh food and parts for manufacturing,

The data is impressive, and all sorts of old dogs are whistled again -- 17 mile queues at Dover, lettuces quadrupling in price during Wimbledon season. Readers might not intitally spot the textual shifters to polarise if not binarise the issue, such as:

[The UK has] more to lose from the [complete] failure of the EU talks [the only option if we leave]

it would also be wrong to imagine that Britain could just turn its back on Europe [!] and conduct all [!] its business with the US instead.