There is some hope; the world gets better after Conrad does alone and he’s not even a footnote. But yeah, that’s not a helpful timeframe. While the Doctor has “energy to burn and all the time in the universe”, the rest of us don’t.

The show gets accused of being preachy anyway, might as well drag the baddie into the pulpit and say it clearly for the people at the back.

I played the lead in a college production (circa Pablo Honey) which had a similar edit length and a projected Former King, but this performance was obviously on another level!

You stamp on the truth,
choke our bandwidth and shred our patience
Because the only strategy you have is to wear us down.
But the thing is, Conrad,
I have energy to burn and all the time in the universe.

All day long,
this relentless noise.
Cowards like you,
weaponising lies,
taking people's insecurity and fear
and making it currency.
You are exhausting.

You see, I am fighting a battle on behalf of everyday people...
..who just want to get through their day,
and feel safe,
and warm, and fed.
And then along comes this... noise.

Pete McTighe tonight, but I’m sure RTD had a hand in it.

But if we stop buying more from the USA than they buy from us, and they re-run the trade deficit calculations that were passed off as tariff figures, the tariff on our goods could exceed that 10% fallback.

The special Star Trek announcement is a Khan podcast drama, not a game, so sadly the “also on our website” thing for “Doctor Who: Fifteenth Doctor” seems likely to be from the only people who use a title like that, which is Titan. LEGO would be great though.

Sorry. That third para is mad! People (general people, not just conmen) had to fake coins because of hyper inflation? Most sources say the Emperors reducing silver content led to hyper inflation. If “people” were faking coins we’d be finding moulds everywhere.