Gloom and despondency. As a summary of the public mood in Britain, that is now an understatement. There is a widespread fear that the economic, political and strategic gains which this country has made since the 1970s are all under threat.

Stop and Look – The Race Meeting by Sir John Everett Millais (1853)
In The Race Meeting, Sir John Everett Millais presents a poignant story of an undisciplined crowd at the Epsom Derby.