GETTY EU membership has stopped Britain from thriving for years

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The stock market is expected to soar. Retail sales are up, property and car sales remain strong and unemployment is falling. Where are all the naysayers with their doom-laden warnings about what would happen if we voted for Brexit now? The fact remains that Britain has been held back for decades because of our membership of the EU. We have not been free to make the trade deals we would have wished for while whole swathes of industry were wrapped in red tape and bureaucracy. A sense of freedom and potential has been bursting through in recent weeks and it is still only the early days. We have an even more brilliant future in store.

In the wake of the outcome of the referendum, there was a good deal of nonsense talked about older people voting to leave and thus putting the future of our younger generations at risk. What twaddle.

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With youth unemployment reaching frightening heights across some parts of the EU, what would really have damaged the hopes and prospects of our young was to remain tied into a moribund institution in terminal decline. As it is they, and the rest of us, have everything to play for. Whatever took us so long? ---------------------------------- Just when you think that Islamic State cannot sink to any greater depths of depravity than they have already shown, along comes another incident so inhumane, so utterly barbaric that horror and revulsion are almost not enough.

As if murdering in cold blood at least 50 people attending a wedding in Turkey was not utterly grotesque, it now emerges that the suicide bomber might have been as young as 12.

GETTY Islamic State have reached new lows

This is the true nature of what the world has to deal with. This bunch of psychopaths has turned a boy, who could not possibly have understood what he was supposedly fighting for, into a weapon himself. The world cannot rid itself of these monsters soon enough. ---------------------------------- In this sad old world of ours it is often easy to forget that goodness also exists, such as that shown by the wonderful teenagers Hannah Wells and Maisie Clarke, two Good Samaritans who helped a 90-year-old dementia sufferer back to safety after he had gone missing from his care home.

PA Hannah Wells and Maisie Clarke remind us of the goodness in the world