Our two home test series, first against the West Indies and then Pakistan late last year, lacked sparkle as the outcomes were never in doubt.

The acronym, “FOMO”, or “Fear Of Missing Out”, accurately describes the current irrationality by so-called “little people”, buying into the likes of Tesla, Afterpay and Bitcoin, all entities without a scintilla of justification for their booming share-prices. FOMOists are today’s equivalent to the 1929 fabled shoe-shine boys.

I had no idea half-witted females read my blog. Apparently they do.

Blokes might envy Oliver for his extraordinary sexual allure with females from 15 to 75 hurling themselves at him whenever he steps into the street. But he complains it’s actually rather tiresome.

Each day he’s smuggled down to the carpark with a coat over his head. His recreation is confined to remote bush walks and so it goes.

An Australian Financial Review editorial a few days back was headed, “America Must Move On From The Trump Show”, which speaks for itself.

Elsewhere in the same edition is an article borrowed from Britain’s Daily Telegraph headed “Why Trump’s sin against America can’t just be forgotten”.