I received my renewed passport the other day. Although I am a British subject, it is, of course, one of the maroon “European Union” passports. It is valid for 10 years.

I don’t know - and I don’t suppose that anybody knows - whether this will mean that, post-Brexit, I will be a European citizen until at least 2026 (by which time the negotiations will hopefully have been completed). Certainly, I expect I will be entitled to use the EU channel at airports.

Perhaps more interesting, I used to wonder why the personal information was at the back of an EU passport when all Europeans open books from the front.  Now, to my surprise and pleasure, the important information is once again at the front. I wonder who (in Brussels, for sure) had decided to make that momentous and sensible change.