Well let's leave the abuse of John Lennon's 1971 anti-war song there, though we do have our own war going on, which we may be winning but it sure doesn't feel like it over this Christmas.

 Politicians of both sexes love a little brinkmanship and we certainly have had to endure plenty of that recently as we were told to prepare for a "no deal Brexit". Tough tactics but not surprising letting the opposition know you will go the whole hog and not be pushed around. They need our trade as much as we need theirs.

The pound has been in the doldrums for some time and regained some of the losses on the news of the deal but the full detail is not yet known, the full agreement coming in at more than 1,000 pages. MPS are expected to vote it through on December 30^th.