T he latest weather maps show Britain being lashed with wind and rain as unsettled conditions moves in to break the balmy spell of sunshine Brits have been enjoying. One map generated on Tuesday ...

I am looking at a map of Europe from a recent edition of The Economist.Each country is rendered in a shade of red according to its level of public support for the hard right: the higher, the darker.

For 900 years the accident of 20 miles of Channel water has given Britain a proud aloofness from the European Continent. As recently as last month, Punch could lampoon a "European" as ...