This time last year I was still in Portugal but had made the decision to come home. With Covid over, I was hoping that Britain would begin a process of reflection and the core values of my country would reassert themselves. Instead, I watched with alarm as a new anti-democratic trend took hold.

The same dynamics and behaviours as took place under Covid – the creation of two groups, one ‘good’, the ‘other’ bad, with the former insulting the latter for questioning new policies – were repeating themselves in another form. This time, the focus was driving, especially by ordinary people. A