Including my own and children’s (usually 3rd year in old money) schooldays, I’ve ‘done’ the English Civil War five times now. Before and after, there was a lot of dissolving and reforming of parliament, most of it tragically miscalculated. The main potential connection with our current potential shenanigans is that, although many of those at the top lost their heads, far more of those at the bottom of the pile, who hadn’t a clue what was going on, suffered as a result. And so it goes on.
“A ‘no-deal’ Brexit will be devastating”
I quoted Overheard Bloke in the Gym Changing Room not long after the referendum: ‘We should say ‘You’ve had your last cheque, Merkel’, close the borders, job done!’ If we’d followed his sage advice rather than fannying around for four years, we’d have been through the...
