I’m not sure how much everyone else has heard about it, but I want to say something about the big military parade Trump apparently held for himself at the weekend. The thing is, I don’t have anything to base it on. There was absolutely nothing about it on the Beeb, so all I have to go on comes from Youtube. These days, I trust Youtube channels, especially American ones, less and less: they all seem to be biased this way or that. Things seem to have become especially questionable since the advent of CGI and AI – we can’t even trust things purporting to be photographs. Thus while one channel might show a huge glittering parade lined with adoring spectators, others might show long rows of empty seats. It’s extremely difficult to know who to go by, so I think I better just stay out of it.

Oh, what a mess we’ve got ourselves into.