We learned this week
that the hammer of justice had descended in the matter of the Crown versus those blokes who stole
that solid gold toilet.
I can't wait to see it.
Interesting.
Tell me more.
See where this goes.
Come on.
You remember five years back, give or take,
a solid gold toilet was stolen from Blenheim palace where it had been part of some doubtless non terrible and non risible art exhibition.
Police initially, initially had nothing to go on,
but eventually flushed the suspects out and the fact of their conviction tees up nicely.
We learned a segue about sticking with the subject of people who may have acquired gilt finished bathroom fixtures by dubiously ethical means.
Because we learned
that US President Donald Trump and or certain members of his administration lack both a basic understanding of the history of their own nation and an elementary appreciation,
appreciation of the sensitivities of other nations.
We were, yes, every bit as shocked as you are.
We learned this from President Trump's incumbent spokesknit wit, Caroline Lavatt,
whose lines in response to a question about some French politician wanting the Statue of Liberty returned,
all things considered,