On the one hand: ‘What a mess they’re making of vaccinations. No way half our population would have been jabbed without Brexit’ On the other: ‘Our food exports fell by 70% in January. That’s not just Covid, because food sales are only down 11% everywhere else’. Anyway. My family says I’m too pessimistic, so we now have a ‘Smile Jar’ in the kitchen. I have to put in a pound for every negative comment. It’s half empty, of course.
“‘Quick and easy’: what leavers said about a UK-EU Brexit trade deal”
There used to be a certain type of chap (always a chap) who managed to have a pretty enjoyable and louche time at school and bluff his way through exams. He’d get into Oxbridge, his father’s old college, a few strings pulled, have a pretty enjoyable and louche time,...