I’m afraid I’ve finally lost patience with our (the UK’s) Labour government: the one I voted for. Its worst policy decision, in my view, was its re-classification of ‘Palestine Action’ as a ‘terrorist’ organisation, leading to the arrest of literally hundreds of peaceful demonstrators over the last month, protesting against the decision, quite reasonably; half of them (if reports are to be believed) over 60 years of age. They’ll be coming up for trial later. It will be interesting to see how the courts treat the old codgers.

Then there are Sir Keir Starmer’s two clever wheezes, both involving Trump, and both showing some imagination – thinking ‘outside the box’ – but with embarrassing outcomes. The first was his appointment of Lord Mandelson as British ambassador to the court of King Donald, probably on the grounds that one moral reprobate (I’m referring to his social rather than his sexual preferences) was likely to get on better with another, than a boring old professional diplomat would. Now of course that has turned to dust. The second clever wheeze was Starmer’s ‘unprecedented’ invitation to Trump to make a second state visit to Britain, with all the fawning ceremony that will involve, and which Trump is clearly a sucker for. We’ll be seeing how that turns out in this coming week, sans Mandelson. Trump is the most internationally despised American President in history. Was it really necessary to suck up to him in this way?

In the background to this there is of course the rise of the Right in Britain, demonstrated by today’s 100,000-strong march of ‘Tommy Robinson’ (Yaxley-Lennon)’s supporters in central London. 100,000 is a lot. Apparently Elon Musk addressed them. I’m scared; as I’m sure Yaxley-Lennon, Musk and the rest want us all to be.