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Ever since Trump tariffs hit Chinese solar panels back in 2018, Beijing sped up its plans for a future beyond a US-led world order.

She arrived onstage inside a giant car exo-skeleton, like a hip-hop Transformer, and sped through her set with pin-sharp choreography and boundless good humour.

“The ball sped up on me the first few series of the season and I really wasn’t myself,” Muncy said.

But the protesters were listening to another speech, and none appeared to meet her gaze as she sped by.

Social media, he says, has sped up a rush to judgement, leaders put under an unforgiving glare.