In ninth grade, I failed math with a 64, or one point away from passing. (So they tell me — again, terrible at math.) I pleaded with my teacher to do me a solid and look over the exam that ...

“With the UK being 13 to 14 per cent of the EU,” he said, “you can, as it were, do the math.” The chamber resounded to tutting, and cries of “Maths! Maths!” First an open colla ...