The rise of drawbridge capitalism

It was Shakespeare – not William, but rather Stephan, the British head of research firm YouGov – who first coined the drawbridge phrase in 1995 as a reference to the threat of isolationism:

"We are either ‘drawbridge up’ or ‘drawbridge down’. Are you someone who feels your life is being encroached upon by criminals, gypsies, spongers, asylum-seekers, Brussels bureaucrats? Do you think the bad things will all go away if we lock the doors? Or do you think it’s a big beautiful world out there, full of good people, if only we could all open our arms and embrace each other?"