UK is falling apart and yet muddle-headed wallies approved £4m bridge over road for BIRDS to use (they fly, remember)

WE’VE always been rather good in this country at building bridges. In AD 50, our Roman rulers — perhaps feeling a bit guilty that they’d recently killed Jesus — gave us the first bridge across the Thames in London and that gave us a taste. The Victorians were crazy for bridges. They built one over...