Can there be anyone intelligent who can doubt that, far from being the liberating event its proponents argued it was, Brexit is turning out to be the disaster that many (but, sadly, not enough) people expected it to be? Rather than leave it like that, in true academic fashion the author has left no stone unturned, no unconsidered trifle un-snapped up, in scrutinising the mass of data which may contain grains of good news about Brexit. Not for him the pointless shredding of reputations and shallow theorising of our pygmy politicians: this is a fact-based book which will enable the diligent reader to arrive at their own considered view of this momentous event. Alternatively, you may simply want to use the pages as a commonplace book; to write begging letters to mortgage lenders; to draft a letter to the Irish Passport Office in the vain hope that a distant Irish relative from a couple of centuries back may qualify you for EU citizenship; or even in extremis, as loo paper. That, to be fair, is all that the Johnson "oven-ready" Brexit deal was good for...