PM Jimmy Morrison is relieved. A social media company from the Yoo-Ess-Ay has taken the alleged parliament house rape from the front pages of traditional media headlines, to be buried between the social and sporting pages.

The World Health Organisation just concluded its initial report from China into the origins of Covid. And has found that Covid didn't have an origin. It just appeared.

Any event that combines mania, greed, winners, losers and Wall Street is a sure thing for a movie. And so it's all happening in Hollywood.

"Nothing in his life became him like the manner of his leaving."

Trump successfully blended a rare genius for self-publicity with the EQ of Attila The Hun and of being President. This meant four years of full time employment, with overtime and penalty rates, for cartoonists, comedians, impersonators and lawyers.

The reality is that dealing with pessimistic and leaden EU negotiators is a Sisyphean task. Borisconi yesterday agreed with Ursula von der Leyen, EC President and a German whose sense of humour was crafted in a bunker, to give their negotiators until Sunday to avoid a no-deal. Sigh.