Digested week: Jimmy Kimmel’s suspension backfires with a Streisand effect return

Plus ‘American values’ versus ‘British values’ and Emma Watson’s allergic reaction to press junkets

Cometh the hour, cometh the man, and if we don’t always get the heroes we want, we surely get the ones that we need. This week, as Donald Trump mouthed off at the UN and told Europe it was going to hell, relief came in the form of – what else? – a man best known for his Beadle-style pranks, including painting people’s houses while they’re out and putting snakes on their backs while they’re waiting for a massage. Jimmy Kimmel, who has always struck me as the best of the late-night hosts and infinitely preferable to his late-night rival, Jimmy Fallon, nonetheless looked surprised, this week, to find himself caught in the spotlight of history.