Sustaining rays of hope will soon be replaced by a winter of discontent

NORMAL service resumes next week.

This is the last, lazy week of summer. Maybe there will be more, glorious good weather. If you are back from holidays, I hope it is still doing you good. If you are still there, enjoy.

If you haven’t had a holiday and being abroad seems like another universe, maybe the sunshine gave you a lift. If that sounds patronising, I apologise. There are few phrases as phoney as ‘I understand’. You know too well how few people do.