Christmas Day: It's A Mad Mad World -- by Susan Price
Exactly a year ago I wrote a post comparing our politicians and their shenanigans to a pantomime. A Bigly Christmas 2017 To You Sorry to spoil your Christmas again, but -- A whole twelve months have passed; more than twenty-four since the referendum. And are we any clearer about anything? Grimaldi: public domain Oh no we aren't! Will we Brexit? Won't we? Is it behind us? Our government is certainly beneath us. The past year has left me -- and you too, I've little doubt -- with an uneasy feeling that we've slipped through some uncanny border into a world of strange perspectives and surreality which makes the Pantomine Land seem almost normal. For hours, you think you're in the old, sane world and then you hear of Trump's latest tweets. Or you hear that Karen Bradley, the MP appointed secretary for Northern Ireland has cheerfully told some reporter that, fancy, the Northern Irish community is somewhat divided! Gosh, who knew?! Follow l...