Phew, let’s stop sweating it over Brexit – the thong is back | Ariane Sherine

Rising sales of tiny smalls mean boom time for Britain, so forget stockpiling baked beans and start living it upDon’t worry about Brexit – it’s all going to be OK! How do we know? Because John Lewis says thongs are popular again (yes, thongs, ladies, those abominations you surreptitiously pull out of your bum cheeks in deeply elegant fashion). And if long skirts mean a recession and miniskirts mean boom times, then excruciatingly skimpy undies must signal that we are headed for