It started with a pink blancmange rabbit. It would hop into my mind as I drifted off to sleep, never not surrounded by verdant jelly grass. Then came the red, white and blue angst — tutting over Union Flags flown the wrong way up. The broader diagonal white stripe should be at the top on the side nearest the pole, people! Finally, I found myself scouring Etsy for a charm bracelet, recalling I’d boasted a silver one aged six, bearing — what — corgis, crowns, carriages? And, then, it hit me. Is it actually 1977?
The Queen is celebrating her Platinum Jubilee, while Prince Charles reads himself for the throne. Street parties loom, while red, white and blue abounds. There’s a cost of living crisis