Stuart Holland was the most accomplished, progressive Europeanist to have walked on Europe’s, and Britain’s, soil.

A splendid academic economist, he could have spent a lifetime at any top university of his choice.

A loyal friend, he would have jumped on a plane to wherever just because I said I needed him.

An overwhelmingly effective parliamentarian, he could have become PM had he not minded ending up compromised.

An ally of his native Britain’s workers, a supporter of the Global South’s struggle for dignity, a committed greenie before it was cool to be green, an internationalist who knew that patriotism means loving your country always and opposing your government when it is wrong.

That this man, whose mind produced one innovative idea after the next on how to save the Europe he loved from its current sorry state — that this man was, in the end, ignored by the powers-that-be in Europe, is evidence enough that the forces ruling over Europe were too dull, too grim and too corrupted to reach for their own good.

Farewell Stuart. I know you would have loved our Modest Proposal to be given one last airing. Farewell, my dearest friend.

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