I suspect the jubilee will be the usual pile of tawdry sentimental tosh, but I do think that Ms Piggy has played a good hand over the years, sometimes in times of constitutional difficulty.

I also suspect (particularly now that she pays tax) that she is a lot cheaper than a president of the USA, and given some of the idiots and thieves propelled into presidential positions around the world from time to time, one should be very careful what one wished for if planning to replace the monarchy.

I cannot see her being anything like as divisive as our present illegitimate bunch of Etonians - but I concede that her mother was a nasty fascist.