What a week it has been in the UK. On Tuesday I was preparing to write this week’s column about our newly announced prime minister, Liz Truss.

I was going to explore the inevitability of her having to approve a rescue package for “ordinary people” to support them through the economic crisis, despite being against “handouts” in the small-state, low-tax, ultraright wing views she expressed in her leadership campaign.  ..

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