Fantasy Island Farewell

Mere scientists are finally taking the hint and confining their unwelcome presence to the fact-based hell-hole that is the rest of the world. Limited collaboration with the reality-dwelling community was grudgingly negotiated as part of Britain's trade deal with the Strasbrussels enemy; but the beastly Euro-wogs have been dragging ther feet, on the science fiction grounds that international treaties signed by the United Kingdom somehow apply to the United Kingdom. The Government has sought to compensate by its tried and tested method of ramping up the rah-rah: the country which failed to deduce that flouncing out of a trading bloc might have some effect on trade is poised upon the precipice of becoming a "global science superpower," and if British scientists prefer the veridical inflexibility of physical and financial resources that are so unambitious as to be purely actual, then more fool them.