Can I interest you in a traffic island? That’s right: I said a traffic island.

Or, if you prefer, a roundabout.

It is, I know, an odd question and I can assure you that I am fully aware that a lot is going on in the world, what with Sunak’s desperate (and possibly effective) weaponisation of climate politics, Musk’s destructive impulses, and Russell’s toxic brand. There’s just too much I could talk about, perhaps, to justify spending the next few minutes warbling on about an otherwise forgettable patch of land that serves no purpose other than describing the inner radius of a turning circle.