I’m quite sure that I’m speaking for us all when I say that there can be little more nationally embarrassing than the sight of your sovereign and other elected heads of state all effectively kissing the arse of a known conman, fraudster and charlatan, just because he happens to lead the world’s foremost superpower. Like everyone else I watched the footage of last night with disgust this morning: Trump putting on his statesman act, reading words he clearly barely understood, yet having the air of someone who assumed he was born to attend such dinners; King Charles clearly buttering him up, using carefully chosen words to keep the buffoon on our side, while obviously knowing full well that he was participating in nothing more than a charade. It was a sickening, perverse, spectacle. Especially given all the abject politics Trump represents, I’m sure I’m not the only person wondering how it came to this.