The fog of war

A strange air of unreality pervades Brexit Britain. Like one of the pea-soupers for which, along with pragmatism, we were once known abroad, the country is currently cloaked in a fog of inertia and delusion which has left it in limbo.Leadership liesMuch of that is down to the Tory leadership contest within which, despite its being conducted behind closed doors, much absurdity can be glimpsed, but which is also curiously muffled. Amongst the absurdities of the different candidates’ positions on B