Monday
As billionaire ghost-American Mark Zuckerberg emerges from his – dunno, really … pod? Mansion pod? Pod mansion? – to remark upon his billionaire manbaby rival Elon Musk’s continuing failure to set a date for their cage fight, I suddenly and entirely coincidentally recall (courtesy of an otherwise altogether dismal attempt at a Latin GCSE) the impressively named Roman statesman and general of the third century, BC Quintus Fabius Maximus Verrucosus, who so scrupulously avoided direct confrontation with the altogether superior Hannibal that he was nicknamed “Cunctator”. It means “the delayer” but I dread to think how it might translate if the slipshod typists of, say, Twitter, got hold of it.
