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As usual, the mockery was a way to avoid the real emotions we should feel: How the hell did America get here?

On the Friday in October when David DePape burst into the house where 82-year-old Paul Pelosi was sleeping and allegedly beat him with a hammer, fracturing his skull, most Americans were shocked, horrified and disgusted.

For the past few years, the U.S. and the U.K. have followed strikingly similar political trajectories. Against all odds, populist uprisings captured both countries’ conservative parties, secured power and embarked on projects of national transformation. These efforts went badly (to put it generously), and in due course support for the…

ITV presenter Lorraine Kelly took a subtle but very obvious swipe at Prince Harry over his interviews to promote book Spare