I think the best thing I can do here this evening is direct everyone to this astonishing speech by Robert de Nero given yesterday at the Cannes Film Festival. In it, de Nero openly and quite brutally criticises Donald Trump. Of course, political criticism is a normal, healthy part of democratic life, but what I find astonishing – even slightly unnerving – is the immediacy and danger in de Nero’s words. He uses words and speaks with a tone we are totally unaccustomed to at such occasions, and which we would never usually encounter in any form of public discourse. But then, day by day it becomes clearer and clearer that these aren’t normal times: something truly ominous is happening, especially in America, and the sooner we’re all aware of that the better.