It is five years since that glorious moment when I stood in the pillared room in Downing Street as a cheering crowd counted down the seconds to midnight - and BONG!
Never mind whether or not he actually touched that Bible. At 12.01pm EST, the invisible pulse of power surged from the battered volume into those five digits of the right hand of Donald John Trump.
I have been struggling all morning to find reasons to be cheerful. I wanted to write one of those jolly, holly-sprigged columns about why it's a wonderful world, and why Britain is a wonderful countr…
There are plenty of reasons to be appalled by the news that Keir Starmer is about to break his word to the people, and take this country back into the clammy grip of the EU.
When Bashar al-Assad last week scuttled to Moscow he finally exploded the myth of Vladimir Putin 's strategic genius. He made his Kremlin patron look a total fool.