The new government, well-intentioned as it might be, gives me the impression of an inexperienced, narcissistic crew running towards a head-on collision with Europe.
This is, after all, the crew running the country: and, as fraught and mismanaged Brexit negotiations continue, these bitter divisions are only set to widen.
Alan Greenspan, Ben Bernanke, and the rest of the crew running economic policy somehow could not see the housing bubble as it grew to more than $8tn.
"Your honour, we recognise that taking up our positions by the railway line, assaulting the crew, running off with sacks of cash and planning to spend it on a life of debauchery was an oversight.
Yet few changes have been more popular, with city dwellers and villagers alike listening in numbers that have stunned the young crew running the program from a dusty studio in Kabul, the capital.
Just after 1pm the crew, running into bad weather, requested to climb to 34,000 feet – although air traffic control said the plane should keep at the same altitude.
