Like many people on Tuesday, I was eager to find out what former US President, Donlad Trump had been charged with in a New York court. It turned out that he had been accused of 34 different criminal offences. TV reporters, like me and probably you as well, struggled to see those 34 items. It appeared to be only one thing — falsifying his accounts.

Maybe he did it 34 times. I don’t know; I couldn’t work it out from the charge sheet that was published. Meanwhile, across the rest of the…