[Devongone]

I can understand that an ambassador in Kazakhstan or Mali might NEED to make detailed reports on the governance of those countries and the characters involved, but why does our Ambassador in Washington have to spend a lot of his time re-stating the bleedin' obvious?

He wasn't saying anything that was even slightly insightful. Jon Sopel would have sent better ..... 0762, Hibbee Jim or I could have crafted together a few such reports on the Donald and his chaotic (but occasionally almost inexplicably successful approaches to government, or should that be management verging on tyranny?)

The question I'm tempted to ask is ...... is an ambassador an outmoded concept in a digital age? Certainly his level of insight doesn't suggest it's worth our money. He isn't telling us Trump is an emissary of a subterranean alien race of lizards is he? He isn't relaying news of a worryingly secret pact with China to allow it to turn the South China Seas into a land mass is he? He's telling us what the whole world already knew. The only part of it that was secret was that the Ambassador was going to feel the need to justify his position by regularly reporting it back home.