Five Things: 3rd January

Happy New Year. Here are five things, an irregular selection of items elsewhere worth reading/seeing. The first, an extract from the new Trump book out next week in the US, is simply jaw-dropping.

1) Donald Trump Didn’t Want to Be President. – Michael Wolff

2) Thinking that Brexit can be stopped is a dangerous delusion – Daniel Finklestein

3) BBC failed to mention that “staff nurse” is a top Corbynista – Guido

4) Leviathan – Philip Hoare. Everything you need to know about the wonder that is whales. I’m years late to this book. If you have had enough of being lectured by David Attenborough about how it’s all our fault, then this is for you. Yes, yes, Attenborough’s great but… overload. Read Hoare instead.

 5) Six Days in September. BBC Arena profile from 1979 showing the abstract painter John Hoyland at work.