After all the grief, some good news from the island: people in the south of England are getting very old. Women there live an average of 95 years – almost as old as the Queen. A journey to a region where humour, friendliness and eccentricity have survived Brexit and political chaos unscathed.
The British really don’t have it easy. First Boris Johnson made the famous one lie too many and had to vacate Downing Street. And no sooner had his next tenant, Liz Truss, presented herself at Balmoral Castle for her first visit to the queen than the immortal died. Mourning settled over the country and people and somehow also the whole world. Now a new king and a new prime minister, but many old worries. Brexit, inflation, high cost of living, that’s the current British triad.