Snakes and leaders

Week's end edition

And so this is Friday, and what have we learned?

It was a week with all the usual luggage: minister brags and then he quits, Hollywood red carpet is full of twits. And all the while, hanging over the trivial stuff: existential dread, and portents of doom.

Depending on who you read or listen to, the Silicon Valley Bank collapse could be the start of someth…