DEAR Reader, you’re in luck. You will soon be in the new dawn of ‘After’. I am writing this in the twilight zone of ‘Before’, but, thanks to the venerable professor Sir John Curtice, I have a pretty good idea. The odds at the fish stall in the farmers’ market on Saturday morning looked like Russian roulette: Michelle Obama becoming the next US president (22/1) was more likely than Rishi Sunak staying on as Prime Minister (33/1). I put my money on the Cromer crab instead.
Turns out the crab was a good investment. Before the church bells rang out on Sunday, the odds had
