The Emperor's New Favourite

Aside from the possibility that cutting ourselves off from our biggest international market might not be the best way to make the country prosper, perhaps the most unpredictable effect of British liberation from the Strasbrussels yoke is the master race's loss of its cherished status as the Pentagon's representative in Europe. The mantle of "special relationship" has now passed to the Righteous State, whose current leader has been deemed sufficiently corrupt and thuggish to address a joint session of Congress for the fourth time. This represents one more audience than was granted to Mr Churchill, who addressed Congress twice to update his favourite allies on the progress of his personal efforts to win the Second World War, and once to congratulate the Truman administration on its genocidal campaign in Korea: President Truman was so honoured that he sent his wife along to listen. It still remains to be seen whether the master race will regard the Netanyahoo's upstaging of the greatest Briton ever as a diplomatic gaffe on a par with the eviction of Mr Churchill's bust by the Kenyan upstart Obama; or whether Tumbledown Tessie's holding of the Trumpster's little hand may be considered an adequate compensation.