MARTIN JOHNSON

I was thumbing through a list of ‘fake news’ items the other day, which included the Pope endorsing Trump for President, an unfortunate chemistry lab assistant in Florida blowing his nether regions into little pieces during a fart lighting experiment, and Kevin Pietersen accepting a lucrative offer to replace Andrew Strauss as chief executive of the ECB.
Actually, I made that last one up, but it just about fits the fake news criterion of being faintly preposterous, yet believable enough for some people to think it might actually be true. Into which category ...