This has been on my mind, but now I’ve got it on paper (on screen, actually) I can get on with other things. I needed to unload my thoughts. This is an open letter to J.D Vance, vice president of the USA. It probably won’t reach him. That’s okay; now I feel lighter: Dear Vice-President Vance, It’s clear you’re an intelligent person, but intelligence doesn’t necessarily make a person wise, or honest. Your well-documented resistance to the war in Iran is commendable, but your desperate attempt to shield Trump from total responsibility for the Republican shambles that was the mid-term elections seems to me to be both mendacious and duplicitous.…