As I write this, I am sitting on an Avanti West Coast train from Edinburgh to London listening to arguments break out between the passengers. People are arriving at seats thinking they had reserved them weeks ago, only to find someone else sitting there also holding a valid reservation.
Welcome to the summer of 2022. When we look back on it in years to come, this will be remembered as a surreal time — when everything was falling to pieces and the Government’s response was to stick up a summer-long “out of office” sign.
