Winter Olympics open - Turning a blind eye to sports’ ruin

If yesterday’s weather forecasts were accurate then today parts of the country will, appropriately, lie under snow just as the Winter Olympics open in South Korea. In what seems a particularly apt challenge the Pyeongchang games have been named as a “peace Olympics”.

This moniker must refer to geopolitical difficulties exacerbated by President Trump’s gunslinger diplomacy and Kim Jong-un’s willingness to play along in this chest-beating double act — chest-beating that seems like more like something from a wrestler’s ham-it-up handbook than something from one of the great, peace-centred works of diplomacy.