Fiction

The premise is that Britain has left the EEC and the resulting economic catastrophe means that the US merges with the UK. American forces then become an occupying army, and I read it partly as a critique of the US in Vietnam.

England opens up more tomorrow, with the aim of being largely back to normal on 21st June. There is a lot of hoo hah about the "Indian" variant, but all evidence so far suggests the vaccines remain effective. We shall see.