
Here’s a deeply depressing statistic: the number of searches for heated blankets has skyrocketed by 611 per cent this year, as a result of the energy crisis and people fearing they won’t be able to heat their own homes during the winter months.
But — and this “but” is doing a lot of heavy lifting here so allow it — there is a reason all the dystopian films are full of really good lewks, okay? (I told you it was a big “but”.) As Churchill famously said: “If you’re going through hell, you might as well look good doing it”. Or, maybe it was “keep going”. Whatever it was, it was very moving.