To a rosy-cheeked child leaving school for the summer holidays, the six-week stretch of freedom seems an almost unfathomably large stretch of time. It's a daunting prospect for any young mind to take in such pure and unadulterated freedom. How will one while away those long afternoons?

A similar sensation occurs when considering the upcoming four months of campaigning that will lead us to the European Union referendum. We are just a fortnight in, yet the prevailing mood already seems one of jaded apathy. Parties are divided, leaders at loggerheads and everyone else faces 17 weeks of little else on the news agenda.