It’s not all bad news. It just looks that way. According to veterans of the Brexit wars, Covid-19 will be the final nail in the coffin of the European Union. The myth of a United States of Europe will, we are assured, now give way to a restoration of national sovereignty in which Britain, as first among equals, will proudly point the way.
Macron peers into the abyss as protesters step up the pressure on pensions
A state of intermittent anarchy, choreographed by the trade unions, has taken over from any kind of political discourse.