This weekend I finally threw away my t-shirt from the 2010 Conservative Party Manifesto launch. It was not a political statement. I did not throw it away in disgust at the state of the country, and I still have my copy of the Party Manifesto perched on the shelf between Niall Ferguson’s Empire and Will Hutton’s Them and Us . The Lib Dems probably would not like to be compared to runaway slaves I liked the shirt, a lovely soft blue, but it was simply uncomfortable. In fact, I could not bear wearing it, with stiff plastic letters emblazoned across the chest in the shape of Great Britain proclaiming, “We’re all in this together”. Frankly, it did not make me feel any better to know that the whole country was banding together with a stiff upper lip, bravely to take whatever fiscal retrenchment the Treasury sent our way. In the same way, it does not make it any easier to suffer through a Saturday morning hangover to know that all my mates’ heads are pounding just as much a ...