Roll up your trousers, readers! In a moment I’m going to open the sluice gates for another round of The Dismal Awards.
But first, and because I’m making up the format as I go along, I’m going to change the order of ceremonies and begin with the award for Absolute Best Thing That Happened This Week
Man, did you watch NASA’s Mars landing?

Some of the commentary by their - I believe - chief engineer was literally, actually, breathless. Here was a man watching an all-comes-down-to-this moment like no other. Anxious can scarcely be enough to describe how he must have been feeling.