Dispatch From South Africa: While I Ate Koeksisters, Britain Voted Green

Sunburnt and 11,000km away, I watched a Green shockwave hit Manchester - and Matt Goodwin discover that studio politics has limits.

I have woken up reasonably happy today.

There are several reasons for this - not the least of which being that I’ve spent the past 24 hours or so engorging myself in the sun with prodigious amounts biltong, melktert and koeksisters.

Beyond the high-sugar, high-protein driven bliss I’ve been eating myself into though, the news has just broken in the UK tha…