All the old certainties of the post-war era I was born into are gone.
Our political chaos is a symptom of an age entering its death rattle

To a time traveller from the post-war era, Britain today is a fundamentally different place from what it was. All the old certainties are gone.

Few people expect to have a job for life, a third of marriages end in divorce within 20 years, nearly a fifth of the population was born abroad and Christianity is fast becoming an anachronism.

We should hardly be surprised when our political system, designed for an entirely different nation, stops working. And last week, spectacularly, it did.

In the wake of disastrous local election results for Labour, an internecine war broke out at the highest levels that

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