We must always remember that dictatorship is often grasped gratefully by the populace it rules over; and that liberty is never a battle that is won, but a forever ongoing struggle.

With less than two weeks until voting ends, the president remains a clear underdog for re-election. And he might take the Republican Party down with him.

Actually showing substance as well as a smooth style would allow Labour to capitalise over the Conservatives’ vulnerability over the economy currently, which is being masked by Labour’s failures in this department.

The Government has a lot to answer for relating to its mishandling of the coronavirus; as does the ‘opposition’. But we mustn’t let the media off the hook for the role it has played too.

Sharp-witted and full of vigour, an 83-year-old from Barnsley yesterday spoke more sense than has been uttered by our Government, broadcast media and official scientific advisors for the last eight months.

I talk to Yuval Levin, the founding editor of National Affairs and the author of a number of books.

Chief Inspector Jason Kew offered the usual pitiful excuse for this surrender, that it would “free up” time for his force to focus on “serious” crime, implying that teenagers openly smoking cannabis, inhaling nitrous oxide and snorting cocaine in public isn’t serious.

The Conservative Party’s talk about ‘Buying British’, and of the opportunities Brexit provides to ‘unleash Britain’s potential’, is just that; talk.