Seventeen anti-doping agencies including Canada and the US have called for Russia to be banned from the 2018 Olympics in South Korea. Putin’s chickens are coming home to roost. In the UK, police are trying to find the person or persons behind the water-bucket bomb on the London tube. It was very good luck that the device did not fully explode. Then, really eye-popping stuff from the Macedonian City of Veles where a huge world-wide false news industry makes people rich. It seems to be a function of clicks. More clicks on outrageous stories, more money. And finally, Bette Midler has fallen during a performance of Hello Dolly in New York when some staging apparently malfunctioned. She is believed to be okay.
