The wonderful G20 summit is just about to come to a close. That super event in which the leaders of the top 20 economic powers in the entire (known) universe come together and… and… and show how much they fucking hate each other.

It’s not supposed to be like that. It’s supposed to be like a Glastonbury for grown-ups. All hugging, drinking (water, out of recyclable cups, except the Americans who use plastic bottles brought in plastic bags and kept cool using their own, diesel driven generators), but not much in the way of drugs. It’s supposed to be a love-in so that superpowers can reaffirm their bonds and deals and renew alliances and… love.

Instead we have The Crown Prince of Saudi Arabia, everyone’s favourite murderer. Awaiting charges for the death of journalist. But everyone has to be pally with him because of the oil and the ‘stability’ his nation provides in the Middle East. Except Yemen. Where ‘stability’ becomes ‘bombing’.

Then comes Putin, the hated person’s hated person. Telling how ‘liberalism has had its day’ so now, presumably, we need more plutocrats, more dictators, more secret police and less money wasted on trials, the judiciary and democracy. Just stick a few oligarchs in the mix and you have perfect communism. ?????? Putin also didn’t deny involvement in the Skripal poisonings. Instead he said ‘treason is the greatest crime you can commit against the state’, implying that anything that is done as a consequence is totally justified. Even sending a hit squad to fucking Salisbury. Though Jeremy Corbyn has insufficient evidence to make comment.

Never mind; Trump’s here. Who also has dispensed with any known form of liberalism but in his own way. A blonder way. A louder way. As well as decency and pleasantry. Who fucking needs ‘em?

The last to enter the fray, sorry, enter the party, was President Xi. China’s best known Elvis impersonator. And Trump’s nemesis. They’re in mid-trade-war, racing to hike their reciprocal tariffs and there is serious bad blood. The capitalist (billionaire) and the communist (billionaire). Can you tell any difference?

Theresa May is there of course, in her role as ‘dead man walking’. Or ‘dead woman limping’ as is probably more accurate. So all the European leaders hate her and none of the others can see any point talking to her because she’s out of a job in all but very short-term title.

What a happy world

And hot, don’t forget hot.

Happy Saturday

A xxxx