The responses came in waves.
The first wave arrived within minutes of the statement going live and it was exactly what I had expected. Sharp and immediate and divided cleanly down the middle between people who understood and people who did not and people who had decided before reading a single word which side they were going to stand on. I watched it from the kitchen counter with my coffee and my hand still in Damien's and I read enough to understand the shape of it and then I put my phone face down on the counter and left it there.
Damien watched me do it.
He said: good.
I said: I said what I needed to say. What people do with it is their business now.
He said: exactly right.
His communications director called at half past nine with a summary. The statement was performing, which was
