Flu’s kidding who, Derren?

Derren Brown celebrates 20 years of his mind-reading show on Channel 4 this weekend.

I love his programmes, but i it’s important to remember it it’s just fun. In real life, if you tried to convince people of something ridiculous ridiculou – such as the men who run the world should b be idiots who hide in fridges and think the Second World War wa was ended by flu – people would see straight

through it.

Donald Trump works hard at finding things to say that are even madder than anything before, but he puts in the effort.

This week he told us “the Spanish Flu probably ended the Second World War”.

Next week he’ll tell us the American Civil War ended because

Hitler was stung by a wasp, the Vietnam War started because Barbra Streisand ran out of peanut butter… and the King of England during the Second World War was Dumbledore.