One of the great privileges

Oh no, it's the Morning Line

A tremendous close to a World Cup, and my thoughts this morning are with Kylian Mbappé who scored a hat trick in the final, only to end up not just on the losing side, but with Emmanuel Macron of all people doing an unconvincing and horribly ill-conceived ‘let me console you, brother’ number on him. Oh, that the player had chinned him, live on TV.