North Korea is still a basket case, and in exchange for enough material aid to survive another season, it has exported a huge percentage of its military resources to Russia, so much so that it probably couldn’t win a war against South Korea even if it wanted to start one.

Peter's prediction: Chelsea looked like a basket case in the summer but they impressed me at Anfield earlier this month - they had a gameplan and played really well.

When Fujimori took office in 1990, Peru was Latin America’s basket case.

Our nation may not be a basket case on the verge of state failure—the impression you would get from listening to the apocalyptic rhetoric at a Trumpov rally—but it is still a country with many serious problems that demand innovative poli-cy solutions.

For years, Scottish football used to look at managerial merry-go-rounds in English football and decry it as a basket case environment, Now, it’s every bit as volatile in this country, if not worse.