I know some bloke once said football is more important than life or death. But really, come on. If Boris & Co had gone into action this quickly on, let’s say, Covid, we really could have been talking life or death. If previous governments had been willing to save other failing and indebted industries, we might still have some. It actually is only a game. I doubt we’d have the same furore over some break-away opera and ballet companies. That wouldn’t do quite so much for votes behind the Red Wall.
“‘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,...
