Andy Zaltzman

Well, Mr. Foreign Ministry spokesperson, you might want to click refresh all on that one.

Times have changed.

Mutual respect

Shared interest.

Only one of those four words is in the Trumpist lexicon.

And to give you a clue, it's not one of the first three.

Those are words we can only pray and hope, neither of which are at all effective, both 0% effective right now that the world has paid heed to.

More from Alice and Nish later.

The previous week, Tiffany Stevenson and Neil Delamere were my co-hosts, selected from just over 8 billion contenders, and we simultaneously marvelled and shuddered at the latest in the catalogue of extraordinary but fundamentally pointless technological creations, marathon-running robots.

He's never won Sports Personality of the Year.

I think you might need to go back to the 80s, if at all, for a snooker player winning.

Steve, I'm going to have to check this now.

He may well have done.

Let's see if I can get a list.

You carry on.

That sounds like an older robot, doesn't it?

I can confirm only one snooker player has ever won the BBC Sports Personality of the Year.

That was Steve Davis in 1988.

Wow.

There we go.