The traditional hotel flick through is one of the few times I watch actual live TV these days. In Madrid, funnily enough, there was no BBC World; so, for interest I checked out the news on the Spanish/French/Austrian/German/Russian and US (CNN) channels. And, guess what? No mention of Brexit, anywhere. Which goes to show the extent to which it’s our own, self-inflicted self-obsession. And, yes, I did get out of my room from time to time.
“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...