The most dangerous condemnations of a politician, and the most dangerous jokes, usually come out of their own mouths.

So while the shortest lived prime ministership in British history may have come to an end on Thursday among lots of hilarity about how a lettuce had lasted longer than Liz Truss, it was her nomination earlier this month of “Blank Space” as her favourite Taylor Swift song that gave the UK’s Channel 4 the backdrop to the montage with which it ended the news – and farewelled a British prime minister that night.