This week has been dominated once more by the horrors of Gaza and the attempts by most of the world to obtain a ceasefire through a mechanism (i.e. the UN) that is not really fit for purpose. If the US had any semblance of moral authority left, this has now disappeared completely after it used its veto to stifle the impulse for humanity that most of the world still possesses . The Ukraine forces are creaking at the seams but have not collapsed yet, while the not so great Z is on his travels again, distancing himself from the political...