Playing “silly buggers” is an anglicism to describe an action that is “silly, stupid, or annoying”, according to the Cambridge dictionary. The last year has seen a group of the world’s most influential behaving in exactly such a fashion again and again, not to mention dangerous and irresponsible. Schoolboys playing silly buggers is unpleasant enough for their victims, but when the world’s most powerful man and his enablers succumb to such indulgences,