Post Brexit row between France and UK over Jersey fishing rights should never have been allowed to escalate so dramatically – Scotsman comment

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A “blockade” of a British harbour by French fleet, two Royal Navy ships sent in, musket fire from the coast… Not, as you might imagine, a tale from Patrick O'Brian of derring-do during the Napoleonic wars, but a modern-day, post-Brexit dispute that was trivial, then escalated alarmingly.

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