The world is gripped by 3am dread thanks to an unhinged US president. Can someone turn the history machine off? | Brigid Delaney

Amid the daily horror show in the Middle East is the realisation the so-called adults in the room are insane or powerless or just as bewildered as you are

That funny feeling is back – the one many of us felt at the start of the Covid pandemic, where we had to absorb and accommodate things that once seemed unimaginable.

That funny feeling that doesn’t have a name is part dread, part horror, part captivation as you watch through your phone at whatever this is unfolding.