A brave new world for some, for others a hell on earth
s I walk across the sun-dappled floor of my local wood listening to trees soughing in the wind, it is an odd thought that in these days of woke politics in which all talk of empire is demonised, these creaking boughs were once the seedlings of oaks used to frame up the . The Pilgrim Fathers dropped to their knees, on another earthen floor an ocean made her landfall in Plymouth Bay, Massachusetts on 21 December 1620.
