It’s always frustrating to miss out on the top spot of something and end up in second place, but you have to give Britain credit for punching above its weight. In the world rankings, we’re solidly on course for the silver medal behind the good old US of A. Admittedly, the specific competition we’re talking…

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Greetings from the glorious Republic of Boristan, where our Great Leader Boris Johnson has remade the country in his own image! Gone are the drab days of Theresa May and of the defeatist attitude that Brexit is an iminent national catastrophe! Now is the winter of our discontent made glorious summer by the son of…

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 If you cast your mind back to the halcyon days of 2016, it’s just about possible to catch the last lingering sense of optimism.  Back then, Britain – reeling from the shock of the narrowly decided Brexit vote – and America, stunned by the wafer thin victory which gave Trump the White House, had a…

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There’s something to be said for monarchy. Not the kind that entails absolute power as enjoyed by the likes of Louis IV, Henry VIII, or Catherine the Great. I have in mind something rather different, something that bears greater similarity to what the Queen of the United Kingdom and Commonwealth Realms has today, that is,…

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