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Between Brexit and going on Strictly, the last few months have felt like a fever dream. Time to push the reset button

Leaving the EU has brought us a tawdry display of bad manners, and my public persona is now that of someone who ballroom dances with Kevin Clifton. The world is upside down

Anneka Rice
Monday 03 February 2020 19:33 GMT
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Brexit MEPs wave small Union Jack flags following Farage's last EU speech

Imelda Staunton is to be the new Queen for the fifth season of The Crown. I like the way this series just presses reset every now and again and, without a murmur, we just get on with the new cast. Claire, Olivia, Imelda – all fine by us. Just tell us when and we’ll make the leap.

We all need to press reset this week. I don’t know about you but the last three and a half years have been noisy and jangling. I’ve spent more time figuratively with Laura Kuenssberg and Katya Adler than my own family. Whereas once British politics seemed slow and sleepy, it has become addicted to jeopardy and speed. Fine if you’re a journalist, activist, strategist, this has been your time! But this frenzy has been exhausting for everyone outside politics. We have been desperately grappling with new ideas and trying to keep up to date, usually with a sense of powerless dread.

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