Whilst we Brits have a habit of poking fun at Trump and the US in general, Joe, I do believe that the majority of us feel desperately sad that the nation we’ve admired since we were kids seems to have wilfully inflicted on itself such damage, culminating in the election to the position of the most powerful man on Earth (and, I suspect, the re-election, later this year) of a monster whose sole interests are in money and his own ‘ratings’ (whatever that means).

I think the O’Toole article sums up the situation you have over there perfectly. That’s not to say that I believe the Brits can claim any degree of superiority - we’ve elected our own master of deceit and slave to avarice who has led us out of the world’s largest trading-bloc and sat on his hands while Covid-19 took hold here.

But I do wonder if the supporters of Trump and Johnson realise that we are in danger of becoming seen by the rest of the civilised world as joint village-idiots?