A Greek Collapse. Cairo on Fire. Venus in transit. While Britain partied, the rest of the world fell apart. Christopher Dickey on whether the end is nigh.
The bright red and gold uniforms against the gray skies, the helmets and swords, the kettle drums and clattering hooves and cheering crowds and waving Union Jacks: as I stood outside Buckingham Palace earlier this week watching this very British orgy of anachronism, I had a weird sort of acid...
