7th July 2019

My father used to say ‘don’t put down to malice what’s sheer incompetence’. A lot of it this week. In the crucial vote for PM, multiple postal voting slips have been sent to some Tory voters with the instructions ‘only vote once’! Then, in royal circles, there’s an unwritten pact: to be a member of the royal family and accept huge public funding, you can’t have your cake and eat it by then hiding away and living a private life. Tell that to Harry and Meghan at Archie’s christening. And then, along came Donald. Following Macron’s glorious Champs Elysees parade last year, Trump was determined to emulate it this year in the US. However, Trump was showcased for all the wrong reasons, displaying historical ignorance to the nth degree. The continental army “took over the airports” during the revolutionary war, he said, later blaming the prompter and the rain. You couldn’t make it up.