Better to have the conversation of a nine-year-old child than the usual dinner-table chatter about politics and politicians.

When a popular streamed show ends the final grand episode with an almost-wise way of keeping the peace we should blush in embarrassed disappointment that we do not know how to elect the wise, only the abysmally dull or the brashly absurd.

Democracy needs a bias, towards wisdom rather than away from it.

Let us put on our thinking caps?