Yes, it was a good day over here in Brexit Britain with companies untouched by covid on the brink of bankruptcy thanks to the red-tape insanity of Brexit. No, really, I mean it.

We could relax a little and think, "Thank god the clown has gone, thank god nobody bombed the inauguration, thank god Kamala Harris is brown because that makes it less likely the loony right will want to shoot down Joe Biden so she gets to be president."

As Charles II said to his brother, later James II, "Nobody will kill me to make you king."

We're thankful for small mercies and the 20th January 2021 was a mercy, something graceful and happy.

By the way, have you looked at Amanda Gorman reading her poem at the inauguration? If you haven't, look at it now. It's amazing. I am bowled over by its complexity of scan and rhyme and its simplicity of words.