 What would lead a city like London to seek independence?
What cities in the post-Brexit era could learn from a 14th-century trading bloc As you fly from the country now known as Germany to Britain, the coastal geography of northern European cities gently unfurls. By their nature cities along coasts and rivers developed so they could be open to trade with each other. It could point us towards new relationships between progressive city dwellers in a world that otherwise seems to be putting the brakes on modernity. Despite some of Britain's Leave voters longing to inhabit a fantastical realm immune to foreign influence, the reality is patently very different to that. The League stretched from Novgorod in the east – in what is now Russia – to London in the west.
 They want free movement of people, capital, goods, and ideas.
 They choose modernity over mythology.  They want to deal with rational thinkers, not people going backward.  They want to remain in the EU.  They want free movement of people, capital, goods, and ideas.