There is so much happening in the always enthralling intersection of law and politics that it is hard to know where to start. I will stop my head spinning and focus on just five.

I’m having to rethink my wardrobe since neo-Nazi is the new black. Why can’t white supremacists just wear white, like their Klansmen brothers?

A friend recently contacted me saying she was temporarily unfriending me on all social media because she was preparing to go to America to visit family.

So many people I know are deeply traumatised by the increasing darkness in the world – Gaza, Ukraine, the outrageous antics of Trump and his handpicked MAGA extremists, and now a war between Israel and Iran, not to mention the heartbreaking climate crisis.

Puffs of chemical pollution from a temporary chimney installed on top of the Sistine Chapel by Vatican handymen and firefighters heralds the selection of the new pope.

When I was on the bench I made some ‘brave’ decisions. And shock jocks, tabloid rags, the police association and politicians would pile on with their critical views.

No one knows what is going on, or where we are going, or what will be there when we arrive.

Upheaval, chaos, disruption. These are just a few of the words being applied to the Trump administration's barrage of policy changes.

I totally disagree with Chaiy Donati’s article ‘The Ghosts of 2016: How the Democrats’ betrayal of Bernie Sanders and the embrace of neoliberalism paved the way for Trump’ about the reason Trump won the US election so convincingly. This election had very little, if anything, to do with policy.

With Trump’s historic victory on November 5, the neoliberal era – the era that promised a marketplace for everything and a solution for nothing – seems to be witnessing its slow, painful death.