My fellow Britons

It has arrived at last!

The day we have all been waiting for. It’s V-Day. The day that I think of as V for Victory, V for Vaccine and V for Vera Lynn who sadly can’t be here, but who would have sung “There’ll be Flu Jabs Over the White Cliffs of Dover”, as we fly in the Pfizer vaccine because the ports are gridlocked.

If I can quote that great figure from World War Two who said, “It’s not the beginning of the end, it’s not the end of the beginning, but it is the beginning of the beguine.”

That’s the late great Julio Iglesias, or Julian Inglesias as I like to think of him, one of our great world-beating British crooners…