Thank you for the music

There’s no denying we are heading into a major recession. The newspapers are full of doom and gloom, inflation rates are sky-high, there’s an epidemic of knife crime, global warming weather seems to have totally bypassed England and yet everyone I met this weekend who’d been to see Abba’s Mamma Mia was grinning from ear to ear and in an exceptionally good mood. Having seen the movie myself (twice in the last 48 hours) I can see why. This is a film that doesn’t promise to deliver anything other than two hours of undiluted, infectious, joyous escapism. It’s not champagne for the brain but it’s definitely a serotonin-charged bit of much-needed hope for the heart.