Get ready for Brexit advent, where a new political hellscape opens every day | Marina Hyde

If we don’t get a war with Spain to unite us, I’m excited for an economic war with 27 countriesI do love all the decorations going up now for the Christmas season. My favourite this year is the life-size Downing Street cuckoo clock, where – seemingly on the hour – the door pops open and the mechanical lady comes out.She whirrs jerkily toward the lectern, says “taking back control” as many times as the hour demands, then rotates back inside the apparatus. Conti