Ruto bus, Biden limo and other rude scenes in the Queen’s funeral drama

I have been reluctant to comment on the enormity of the change wrought in the last 10 days by the passing of Queen Elizabeth II. I have never been a royalist, but I had come to view the Queen as magnificent.

Yet, the element that has struck me, apart from the loss, is just how ugly the assertion of hierarchy can be. For this last week has been a maelstrom of hierarchical bruising.