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No matter their politics, in 2019, no-one feels like a winner. How is it that everybody can be feeling beaten at once?

When Ursula discovers her daughter Miri is engaged to a Syrian man living in Budapest, she is torn between generosity and fear. Miri, returning to London to visit her sick father, would rather be...