- Patience, Impatience, and Political Life Today | Paul Dafydd Jones March 15, 2017March 15, 2017 To say that 2016 was a politically tumultuous year is, at this point, to state the blindingly obvious. Sooner or later, my home country (the United Kingdom) will abandon the European Union, a multistate organization that helped maintain peace in a continent that has made a habit of war. Meanwhile, the country in ...Read more »