2012 was such a wonderful year, wasn’t it? The Queen’s Jubilee. Celebrated with the usual pomp, pageantry and a touch of pomposity, but with a surprisingly funky pop concert too. We even had that oh-so-British group ‘Madness’ playing loud and proud from the roof of Buckingham Palace. From the roof! And we all politely ignored the fact Sir Paul McCartney was way out of tune. Because he’s kinda’ royalty himself. And hey, even if you frowned on our quaintly outdated traditions or our out-of-touch royal family, at least you got an extra bank holiday that year… Then the ‘Friendly’ Olympic Games and the heart-burstingly stupendous Paralympics,.Where ‘Great’ Britain beamed and competed its way back to just a smidgeon of genuine […]