I travelled in from frozen Stockholm this morning. My colleague Mary Wakefield set out
from County Durham. No prizes for guessing whose journey took more time due to snow.
When my £38 norewgian.com flight arrived at Gatwick, the captain said: “Sorry, we’re going to be delayed. They can’t seem to find people to open the gate, they say they are short staffed.” The Swedes on the flight burst out laughing: welcome to Britain.
Mary’s £107 train was two hours late arriving to the station, and spent a further two hours stuck in the snow. That the Swedes do better at us in the snow is no great surprise, but it’s odd to see them do better at supply-side economics.
The re-elected Fredrik Reinfeld, who was in seeing Cameron on Thursday, is today celebrating Q3 economic growth figures of an annualised 6.9
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