What if Britain was run like Glastonbury?

A hippie farmer is more effective than the Home Office

The Glastonbury Festival is the spiritual home of England’s metropolitan middle class. As the country’s most prestigious music event, it is hugely sought after and also inevitably attracts a great deal of mean-spirited spite.

I know people for whom it is a great highlight of the year, a thing to look forward to as the pleasures of life flatten in middle …