“Don’t Think Twice, It’s Alright” — Bob Dylan

Don’t think twice, it’s alright…except it isn’t. Especially to a Brit. We’re just putting a brave face on things.

We Brits spend a lot of time apologising for things that aren’t our fault. If you deliberately bump into a British person on the street, odds are they’ll apologise to you, not the other way around.

Social convention also dictates that if someone commits the most heinous wrong you can possibly imagine against you, the appropriate response is to give a half-smile to your nemesis and say “don’t worry, old chap, it’s absolutely fine”.

The “stiff upper lip” is one of those slightly old-fashioned cultural traits which is still highly prized amongst us Brits.

To be fair, we’ve had plenty of reason to call on that oh-so British stiff upper lip lately as our political leaders have comprehensively demonstrated to the world that none of them could even be trusted to run a corner sweet shop without a responsible adult present.

So I know Bob Dylan wasn’t channelling British culture when he wrote “Don’t Think Twice, It’s All Right”…but he could easily have been.

Now, Bob Dylan wrote dozens of much more famous songs than “Don’t Think Twice, It’s All Right”. His 10 Grammys and his Nobel Prize for Literature tell you pretty much all you need to know about the impact of his life’s work.

Songs like “Blowin’ In The Wind” and “The Times They Are A-Changin’” deserve a Nobel Prize all of…