Meanwhile, top BBC billing goes to:

"Branson warns pound to plummet in no-deal Brexit"

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-48942631

"Cuadrilla plans to resume fracking near Blackpool"

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-lancashire-48940875

This is priceless, from that article:

"Supporters of electric cars say the report may be flawed because when you lift your throttle foot in an electric vehicle, the car slows itself and there is less need to brake."

Now they don't want the public to have cars at all - even electric ones!

"Pollution warning over car tyre and brake dust
By Roger Harrabin
BBC environment analyst"

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-48944561

Tiny CO2:

"Our media trashes Trump, our celebs mock him and a big swathe of our political incumbents look down on him."

Absolutely, and they've been doing it since before he was elected President, and there was no let-up thereafter. I've been appalled at the way he's been treated by the "liberal establishment" whose attitude to an elected President they don't like is the same as their attitude to a referendum result they disagree with. The onslaught has been so unremitting that it makes people like me, who can't stand the man, begin to feel some sympathy towards him - in other words, the onslaught has been as crass and unproductive as Trump's own crass behaviour.

Having said all that, and having been keen to give him the benefit of the doubt in the hope that he would prove his critics wrong, I've come to the conclusion that his critics are right. I fear for the world if (as seems distinctly possible) he wins a second term.

Mark, I've not read his latest tweets but I imagine that they're as much a reaction to Britain's reaction to the memos being leaked. Instead of profuse apologies or even reluctant ones, he's had May and gang more bothered with who leaked it and supporting the ambassador. It doesn't matter that he was 100% right or even being diplomatic about Trump et al, he was caught out slagging him off. Trump could have been the bigger man but those who despise him wouldn't cedit him with it anyway. They would have taken it as a signal that it was business as usual. May and Hunt were even hinting the guy would stay on in his job. Lunacy. At the very least they should have apologised for the embarassment and removed him due to a 'clash of personalities'.

May has been school marming Trump since the get go. Telling how to think on all sorts of issues including climate change. I suspect that our civil servants have thought - 'if she can get away with it, so can we'. Our media trashes Trump, our celebs mock him and a big swathe of our political incumbents look down on him. And because the US is our mate and we're morally superior, we expect to get away with it.

If I'd been treated like Trump has been I'd be deeply, deeply polite to the UK ambassador no matter what he said about me and diplomatically tell him to stick a UK/US trade deal where the sun finally set on the British Empire. We might hope that Trump isn't as grown up as me.