I hadn’t realised but isn’t it nice to know that Donald Trump, ironically, nominated David Beasley, a former Republican governor of South Carolina, to run the Nobel prize-winning WFP, which has outshone other UN quangos simply by doing its job. Under Beasley it has helped stop the coronavirus from turning into a hunger pandemic by restoring critical supply chains to those in need.
As an aside, anybody read Time Magazine anymore? Why? The Norwegian Nobel Committee brushed aside Time magazine’s form guide last Friday, opting instead for the safe choice of the World Food Program as the 2020 laureate. The absurdity of Time’s top three nominations — the discredited WHO, doom pixie Greta Thunberg and NZ’s super-woke PM, Jacinda Ardern (whose name it misspelt) — shows that Time has moved on from the days when it offered us a window on a wider world. Donald Trump, squeezed into fourth place, just behind Ardern.