Uh-oh, the US economy appears to be entering the 'find out' stage of team Trump's eff-around experiment.

As employment figures, market confidence and senior statisticians all take a beating from agent Orange , Naomi Smith and Kenny Campbell survey the wreckage – and pay special attention to how AI is acting both as a destroyer of jobs and a huge economic stimulus.

Closer to home, they look at Labour's new plan to get more working class people into the civil service – lefty social engineering or the beginning of a much-needed reset?

And there's some new polling from our buddies at More In Common, who have been asking people when they think the wheels fell off Britain.

Yes Minister clip courtesy of BBC

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