Today’s jam – where is an oompah band on stilts when you desperately need one?
Given the turn of world events we might be forgiven for switching off the news and cranking up John Adams’ masterwork Nixon in China instead? Tempting.
Or alternatively a deliciously suitable daydream might involve a newly written polka operetta mashed up with a bluegrass twist scored by Mark-Anthony Turnage based on the music for the Benny Hill show and backed by a 100-piece onstage oompah band on stilts to the siren call of a chorus of musical saws, sousaphones and the auld triangle.