When I was up visiting my parents a couple of weeks ago, they introduced me to the Rachel Maddow Show. This is a MSNBC news program which you can watch over the web, and gives you a very good glimpse of what is going on in America politically. Watching it, it becomes exceedingly clear that Trump is in deep, deep trouble: he is on the verge of being subpoenaed by the american supreme court to answer questions over collusion with Russia. Were he anyone else, he would already be toast. And yet, what strikes me as odd is, we don’t hear a word about it on the mainstream news. This is a shitstorm bigger than Monica Lewinsky, bigger than Watergate; I get the impression that it could be just days before that ridiculous stain on humanity is booted from office, and yet if you just watched the BBC or Channel Four evening news bulletins, you would never know anything was wrong.