Half-hearted Tory

Spare a thought for the UK’s embattled lamb producers. How long will it be, they are wondering, until they’re forced to wear facemasks, as insisted on by the British Medical Association, no matter how lonely or isolated their properties in the Welsh hills or Yorkshire Dales? And what will happen, they fret, with the third of their production currently exported to the ferociously protectionist EU if Britain finally leaves on 1 January without a trade deal, as is still possible? And, to add further to their woes, how much damage will the royal family’s sudden endorsement of evangelical vegetarianism...