Back with a bout of reverse culture shock

Last month, for the first time in almost two years, I went back home to the United Kingdom.

Outwardly, much has changed there in that time - not least because of the vote to leave the European Union and the subsequent snap election that it spawned.

The specter of Brexit, which now looms so large in British pop culture and common parlance, barely even registered as a turn of phrase before I left.