From Rio to Brexit: a Spotify playlist to make sense of the headlines

As Team GB finish second in the Rio Olympics, the biggest project ever undertaken by a UK government isn’t off the starting line

Britain may have voted for Brexit almost two months ago, but we don’t have an exit strategy in place, let alone plans for what R&B singer Miguel has termed “a beautiful exit”. Apparently, civil servants charged with the task of effecting the move have been spotted in the local Starbucks, where reports state that EU ministers have been overheard humming Coffee Blues by Mississippi John Hurt. Over half the population demanded that Brexit should be acted upon in the referendum, but according to the Guardian: “The government does not know what it wants and is not yet equipped to ask for it.” All they do know for sure is that extricating the UK from Europe will be a monumental undertaking and that the ramifications remain uncertain. Or, to paraphrase constitutional expert Gary Kemp, only when we leave, we’ll leave in danger, and they’ll make sure that we pay.