Right, so the tireless repairman of all things broken by himself, Donald Trump, has at last come up with what he says is the solution to the American major problem over fertiliser shortages.

Or so he’d like us to believe.

A supposedly 'massive' potash deal with Belarus. The slight hiccup being that there is no deal though, no potash either and that the man who had promised cheaper fertiliser is now shaking his tin cup at Putin's favourite despotic henchman after his own little war with Iran, which he managed to turn into a full-fledged farce, had gone to pieces, plus the beef he started with Canada on top of that.

You see, this war has not only raised the price of oil and provided another opportunity for Donald Trump to declare that a bomb is a valid diplomatic argument, it has snarled shipping through Hormuz and cut off the Gul ...