How can we break the Brexit deadlock? Ask ancient Athens by James Bridle 25 dec 2018 In the central marketplace of ancient Athens, around 350BC, there stood a machine called the kleroterion. This was a six-foot-high slab of stone that had a series of slots on the front, and a long tube bored down from the top to the base. Those up for selection for the various offices of state would insert metal ID tags, called pinakia, into the slots, and a functionary would pour a bucket of coloured balls, suitably shaken, into the top of the tube. The order in which the balls emerged would determine who took which role, some for the day, some for a year. [...] continua qui https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/dec/25/break-brexit-deadlock-...