• IN the classicist-in-chief PM’s Janus-faced language, after enforcing draconian regulations, and his delphic responses to the halcyon days of lotus-eaters, bacchanalian aphrodisiacs, nectar and ambrosia and a sop to Cerberus, sailing between Scylla and Charybdis, Pandora’s box has sprung open.

Nemesis! As the deus ex machina, the sword of Damocles, has cut the Gordian knot. Who now believes in chimeras and cloud cuckoo land (Greek ‘Nephelokokkugia’ – a fictional city, ‘Brexit’)?

Time for a PM to drink from the waters of Lethe in the arms of Morpheus…

MIKE BOR, W2