Often held up as a model for modern states with an authoritarian flair, the government is being taught that top-down policies, announced overnight and without public consultation, no longer go down without resistance.
In a piece of achingly beautiful writing, this observation may bypass the typical outsider but as an oncologist, it struck me as the essence of what it takes to die well – the concession that all the well-intentioned therapy in the world can no longer prevent one from going down the irreversible trajectory of death.
One leaflet suggests this will result in "fewer jobs available, pressure on hospitals, longer queues for care, wages going down, less money to go around and longer waiting lists for council housing".
But what I also remembered As woodpigeons sued at the edge Of thirty gleaned acres And I stood inhaling the cool In a dusk eldorado Of mighty cylindrical bales Was Derek Hill's saying, The last time he sat at our table, He could bear no longer to watch The sun going down And asking please to be put With his back to the window.
So the one metric that we're looking at and haven't figured out yet is how many more homes will be foreclosed on how much longer will home prices keep going down.
These operations are intensive and we're no longer willing to have all that going down the drain.
I sit in on Mr Bispham's lesson, where his Year 7s are riffing confidently on Shakespeare's Sonnet 130, with their teacher as the subject of their bard-inspired iambic pentameter insults ("My master's hairline no longer exists", goes down particularly well).
So go ahead, take a longer lunch, go down a Reddit rabbit hole, or check up on your Tinder profile it might just be the cure to your already boring job or essential to office camaraderie.
The choker is a little longer, and goes down to about 14 to 16 inches.
