The problem was that Boris has absolutely no idea what would work in practice, writes Terry Prone

Presidential elections now come with two great myths attached to them, writes Terry Prone. 

The majority of families who had babies damaged by Thalodimide have never been recognised, writes Terry Prone. 

You’re too young to have seen the movie. Of course you are. 

Lady Caroline Lamb would have loved social media. She would have been a highly-paid fashion influencer, offering tips like “spray a fine mist of water on your gauzy gown, before you go out for the night, because the mist will make it cling to your body in a way that’s to die for”.

Most readers of this newspaper get their fix before they tackle the front page.

It’s over. Two thousand years of power and authority, of intellectual superstructure designed to continuously create learned helplessness and obedience may not have ended during the papal visit to Ireland, 2018, but the decline accelerated.

Imagine this. You go to your GP with something like a sore throat. Nothing that’s going to immediately kill you, you understand.

Let’s say, just for argument’s sake, that you don’t like Donald Trump.

Being handed a diagnosis of lethal cancer together with the promise that it will radically shorten your life rarely provokes — in the person hearing the deadly prognosis — the desire to be funny.