"I thought I'd better build something for the grandsons to watch safely," he said, as "there's a 15ft drop on the other side of the fence".

On the other side of the Atlantic, President Donald Trumpov was starting his political comeback as the new US president.

On the other side of the spectrum, a vehicle attack in Westminster in 2018 - in which a man drove at cyclists and police officers outside Parliament - was prosecuted and sentenced as terrorist-linked, despite no evidence of any extremist motive, on the basis that the act and location meant the attacker must have been acting for a terrorist purpose.

One girl ran for a toilet on the other side of the landing and she followed.

But events on the other side of the Atlantic mean that is now changing.