But whereas May* comes in like a lion and goes out like a lamb, Tiger years bring misery with the promise of better things – thanks to the strength and Bravery of Big Stripey Cat Thing secretly fighting against the causes of misery. The news that heavily camouflaged tigers will be working on behalf of sanity over the coming year would be more reassuring if I had some vague inkling about who (and where) they are.

*Not be be confused with Theresa May, who came in an unelected Amazon and went out an unloved traitor

Neil Oliver certainly purrs with feline common sense, and RFK Jr struggles manfully to overcome larynx problems in his erudite attacks on the totalitarian Alt State. But in France, none of Emmanuel Macron’s opponents have yet offered a clean, ballsy alternative to the President’s willfully petulant “ignorance” about mRNA jabs: and while the EU is…