What a difference that Spanish wind makes. This is the country we should have been. In precisely the same way JFK should have ducked, vegetarians forcing you to eat their oomsk at supper should be more apologetic, Olivia Williams should have been my wife, Amy Winehouse should be given a seventh chance, Concorde should still be flying, Steely Dan and not the Stones should have "won" the 70s, every car should have the style of a Reliant Scimitar, Fernet Branca should stay forever in the bottle. Britain should have been nearer the Med. Because we do it well, very well. Maybe not everywhere. But yesterday in Brighton and Hove, as the proper sun properly came out, everyone did it tremendously well, as if living in the country we should have been. A spokeswoman from the Met Office said that, although the official temperature had only reached 13C, it felt much warmer – warmer, even, than either Greece or Turkey. It wasn't just that there was goodwill. Steve Boole, co...