I’ve been watching a brilliant documentary on BBC2, The Zelensky Story. If you’ve not seen it, I recommend you search it out on iPlayer. Apart from anything else, the archive footage of his early years is fascinating. I hadn’t fully appreciated just how huge a star the proudly Jewish Volodymyr Zelensky was in Ukraine when he ran for the presidency – think Peter Kay, Ant and Dec and Ricky Gervais rolled into one.

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