Far from enjoying some mythical “Boris bounce”, we may have been teetering on the verge of a recession, as business confidence dried up in the face of a potentially hard Brexit.

The profit which she cleared on the cargo […] cannot be estimated at less than a thousand guineas.

‘She was great,’ Bennie said. ‘I was crazy about her. But it turned out she had sticky fingers.’ He glanced at Alex. ‘She stole things.’

The Constitution gives Congress the power to declare war; but does that include the power to undeclare it?