In the manner of all good farces and melodramas, these passed ten days have seen Prime Minister Theresa May ambush her cabinet at Chequers in the most Machiavellian fashion, cowing them momentarily with threats of short shrift, sackings and mini-cab rides home if they didn’t submit to coercion over the Brexit deal she has planned, only for a series of high drama resignations to follow, and for her to be wrong-footed by an all guns…

I expect many people will have been hotly debating the EU referendum result on Facebook with friends and relatives, just as I have and the following is the text of a message that I posted recently and which should effectively silence any whinging on the part of those who voted Remain: “To all my friends and relatives who have for the last few days been bemoaning the fact that the democratic decision of the British people…