"I have been monitoring TV and radio coverage, watching travellers complain about a lack of information in airports and stranded drivers blaming "the authorities" and even opposition MPs criticising the government, particularly transport minister Philip Hammond.

Complainants routinely point to Sweden and Finland coping while Britain, as always, does not. (The same is being said here in Ireland). These knee-jerk criticisms are surely beside the point.

Britain and Ireland could hardly devote the ...

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