1959_60 is presently locked away in Buxton drinking mineral water and luxuriating in hot spas. He's not as daft as I've always thought, he didn't risk the "nationalist retreat" which currently demonstrates Europe's growing anxiety.

Not for our lad was taking the delights of travel without border controls. He knew all along the EU is a shambolic façade; free movement has long been offered to be a major benefit for more than 400 million EU citizens, but a bit of a flu epidemic has got them all retreating into their own homogeneous national bunkers.

Thank Christ our "Little England" is free from such EU directives and nonsense.