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Like you, I’ve been spending unhealthy amounts of time bathed in the blue light of my phone, as we all bathe in the blue afterglow of that big beautiful blue tsunami which crashed all over Maga and its Cheesy-Wotsit-In-Chief. Photo: AP/Jacquelyn Martin

Like you, I’ve been spending unhealthy amounts of time bathed in the blue light of my phone, as we all bathe in the blue afterglow of that big beautiful blue tsunami which crashed all over Maga and its Cheesy-Wotsit-In-Chief. Photo: AP/Jacquelyn Martin

Trumpenfreude is the word of the week, coming to us from Helen Lewis at The Atlantic, and even more of a delight than Jude Bellingham in his pants.

Roll it around your mouth for a moment, savour how it feels on your tongue. Has there been a more delicious word this year? This decade?

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