Former British Conservative politician and current pundit Rory Stewart thought it might have been a case of artificial intelligence.   Many would have agreed.  The US First Lady, Melania Trump, had chanced upon a situation where she was chairing the UN Security Council.  It was the turn of the United States to assume the Presidency of the body, and Melania was there to preside.  “Peace,” she said redundantly, “does not need to be fragile.”

The speech was both tedious and barely believable, addressing such notions as “democratizing knowledge” during this novel “age of imagination”.  (Much was made of artificial intelligence, though counterfeit intelligence would be more accurate.)  She asked Security Council members to “pledge to safeguard learning … to build a future generation of leaders who embrace peace through education.”  Education is, indeed, something to safeguard.  But that task has conspicuously failed to have any effect on that man in the White House and any number of his sycophantic and increasingly deranged employees.

With the war widening in the Middle East, the First Lady spoke of enduring peace arising only “when knowledge and understanding are fully valued within all societies”. (If only.)  It was now the moment “for our generation to elevate our children above ideology through access to wisdom.”  This bilge water was made ever more sour by remarks about the need for nations to protect their books, language, science and mathematics.  Fine points,........

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