Digested week: while Americans lead in everything else, no one can match Britain for farce | Emma Brockes

Americans remind themselves that however bad their situation, they are free from the tyranny of a ruling class that looks in the mirror and sees Boris Johnson

America's annual celebration of the day it broke up with Britain takes on a different flavour each year, depending on circumstance. During the presidency of Donald Trump, the joke for many Americans, on 4 July, was won't you please take us back? On Monday, as Britain begins its week-long slide into leaderless chaos, the Americans remind themselves that however bad their own situation, they are at least free from the tyranny of a ruling class that looks in the mirror and sees Boris Johnson.