I’ve been wallowing in nostalgia this week – to protect me from barmy, backward-looking Brexiteers

What was it about an image of my jumpsuit-clad self fleeing to the helicopter that struck a chord this week?

‘We’re getting out of here. Want to come?’: my tweet and photo struck a chord (Photo provided by Anneka Rice)

It’s fascinating how one quickly a tweet sometimes catches the zeitgeist. Once, at a particularly low point of Brexit I tweeted:

“I wonder what David Cameron is doing today? Cotswold pub lunch? Golf?”

It went viral. On Tuesday, as the news of our new prime minister broke, I tweeted a photo of me running along a seaside pier, taken during while filming the 1980s TV show Treasure Hunt, with the caption: “We’re getting out of here. Want to come?”