Maybot plods on, each day a greater torment than the last

When the chips are down, put your fingers in your ears. Photograph: Dylan Martinez/ReutersMany believe that hearing is the last sense to be lost. If true, Theresa May must have been a goner for some time now. She hasn’t heard a word anyone has said to her for months. Her cabinet ministers have all but given up trying to explain to her why her Brexit deal won’t pass through parliament and have instead taken to communicating with her through a series of placards. All of which say: what