The Field

Your country needs you

IT APPEARS, ladies and gents, that you’re not doing enough. What on earth is wrong with you? I hate to say it but we must all lie back and think of Blighty, otherwise we’re in trouble. I’m talking, of course, about the UK birth rate, which is plummeting and if we don’t get a grip and put our backs into it, there won’t be enough of us to keep the good ship Albion afloat.

It’s truedroll). The figures for ‘Nooky for Norway’ and ‘Fool around for Finland’ are not yet in.

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