Austerity has broken Britain and imperilled the Tories. Coalition, take note

Upon returning to my new home in London recently after a weekend abroad, I encountered perhaps the largest queue I have ever seen. Heathrow Airport had so few staff working that evening that many passengers were waiting longer to get their passports stamped than their planes had been in the air.

Thankfully, my Australian passport allowed me to go through faster automated gates, averting the rightfully grumpy gazes of the poor bastards stuck in the longest of lines. But elsewhere Britain’s administrative decay and the sheer failure of its core infrastructure is harder to skirt.