The Big Picture

Vincent Boland: Bell tolls for jokers who promised bread and gave the world circuses

Donald Trump is a walking crime scene, Boris Johnson resigns after the Partygate report and Italy bids farewell to Silvio ‘Bunga Bunga’ Berlusconi

Silvio Berlusconi, who died last week, wrote the populist handbook for how to take a democratic western country hostage long before Trump or Johnson. Picture: Getty