BBC News ran the confrontation full length for all the survivors and families, then as Trump indicated ge was going to give his response, it cut away to other news. Rather elegant way of dealing with the man, I thought.

Hearing the young people and parents say their pieces was moving. Listening to Trump in that context would have felt like a real false note, degrading a significant occasion. We could read what he had to say in our own time- and it didn’t amount to much, and indicated the BBC had been quite right.