, Columnist
Britain and the Consequences of Bolting
The UK is falling farther and farther behind the EU it spurned.
Damp and drizzly
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I know it’s finally spring in London but I’m in a “Call me Ishmael” mood. You know, “Whenever it is a damp, drizzly November in my soul ...” Unlike the Moby Dick character, however, I don’t take to the sea. Instead, I walk through Gough Square and the house of Samuel Johnson, the great 18th-century essayist, lexicographer and wit. Dr. Johnson — as he is traditionally known — had the great buck-up quote about the city where I now live. “When a man is tired of London, he is tired of life; for there is in London all that life can afford.”