Brace position

Road photos

So here we are in London again because we’re now at the do-it-while-you-still-can stage of life. More warm wide-armed hugs, more long talks and long walks and drinks in lovely old pubs with our lovely daughter.

And meanwhile the world is once more in one of its assume-the-brace-position stages.

We turned on the BBC news on Monday morning to all the covera…