Jonn Elledge

How's it all going? Have you crossed paths with any other Oh God, What Now? panellists?

Immediately, about 30 seconds after arriving, I bumped straight into John Elledge, because of course I did.

And then I've never seen him since.

So he may have disappeared in the sort of midst of about six different parties last night.

Some of them are selling very fast.

Things like the 8th of October, there's a literary lunch with John Elledge.

Two o'clock on the 8th of October, there's a Lewis Carroll Walk celebrating our local author.

11th of October, 6.30 in the evening, Johnny Ball.

Canada itself is, unsurprisingly, refusing to budge.

So how are disputes like this resolved? Well, a man who's studied it is John Elledge, a journalist and author of A History of the World in 47 Borders, the stories behind the lines on our maps.

John, it's lovely to chat to you again.

When two countries disagree over a name, how does a cartographer decide what to put on a map?

But if they do just do what he says, then that does give a president who is hugely unpopular, even within his own country, let alone elsewhere, an enormous amount of power.

So I really don't envy them.

John Elledge, author of A History of the World in 47 Borders, the stories behind the lines on our maps.

Thank you very much.