‘It’s bloody cold. You look in the mirror at a face that’s grown old in three years. Three years of plague and inertia. Your world is facing huge problems and you are doing nothing about it. The people who should be governing you have wasted so much money on their dogma and their friends that they have none left to really tackle that harm we are doing to our country, our world. There’s war in Europe. The Russians are seemingly trying to destroy their neighbour with explosives and the world is getting less food, less energy, not because of restraint, but because of destruction!

You are so angry and cold as you look in that mirror which, incidentally, is frosting up. You want to do something you need to do something instead of just cleaning your chattering teeth.’