Had to travel to London for work last week. Checks were a mess at Paris’s gare du Nord. Waited for over an hour in the freezing cold, Eurostar employees at the station were at their wit’s end and the train before mine left the station just short of 10 minutes before us because of delays with passports checks. But the return from St Pancras went quite smoothly, despite the British train strike on top of everything.

Is it nice? No but unfortunately, it’s an expected consequence of brexit. We either need more border patrol or have people register their passport before the journey, like they ask us to do when exiting the UK. But that biometric shit, it’s plain stupid and another unnecessary complication.