Yup, to just about every word. Grim times. Envoi: “Whether the country I once wanted to represent was ever there in the form I imagined is a question I’ll leave to the historians. What I can say is that it’s sure not there now. What remains, angry or depressed, has made for a toxic brew as well as the most dispiriting election of my life…”

don't miss this one! The Cacophonous Quarter: erhu, tin whistle pests, even a Welsh harpist