Colin Powell, perhaps the only sane person still involved with the Bush administration, is soon not to be involved with the Bush administration. The world cringes, and Tony Blair looks even more marginalised than before.

Unrelatedly, Ol’ Dirty Bastard, one of the silliest people in the world of rap (an impressive feat), has died of a heart attack. If there’s an afterlife, he and Rick James will doubtless now be having the mother of all coke parties…