To Destroy What They Can Never Create

What a sobering thought it is, to be the same age as Uncle Vanya.

On Wednesday, a court in London ruled that a boy born there was safer in Ghana than he would be in Britain. With the death of 18-year-old James Wilton from Huddersfield as part of Ukraine's International Legion, in which he had been fighting alongside the likes of Denis Kapustin's Russian Volunteer Corps and Der Dritte Weg's German Volunteer Corps, that sounds perfectly reasonable.

The time necessary to arrange Donald Trump's State Visit might be used to cool him down over Canada, but if anyone were determined not to attend, most obviously, the Banquet, then the chance should be offered to someone from each of the other parties that had won seats at the last General Election, in the order that they had done so, and then to each of the parties that had failed to win any seats, in order of votes cast. One party that returned no MPs won more votes than any of six that did, and meeting its Leader would give President Trump a much more favourable impression of Britain than he would gain from any member of either frontbench, never mind from Ed Davey.