You know what didn’t kill him? Chuck Norris.

They dropped the angle sometime before it airs, but the initial idea for This Time was that Alan was able to get back in at the BBC because he was one of the only media figures who was pro-Brexit, and was hired back as someone who could connect with those 52%.

Clive James once referred to a book he reviewed as “A cubic paperback, written by the type of American author who feels the need to take revenge on his country for making him illiterate.”

I note that a commenter has popped up here suggesting that Mueller might conceivably be suffering from mental decline. It was an interesting if very clearly flawed argument. However, I’ve since noticed that ‘Could Mueller be Senile’ questions have started popping up in my Quora feed.