Digested week: Struggling bees and the G7’s hot mics may speak volumes

Are we in the opening scenes of a disaster movie? There’s something going on with insects It’s the start of the G7, guaranteeing us a week of either serious commentary or hot mic moments that may, in their way, prove more revealing than all the thousands of words of analysis. Previous summits have delivered a steady flow of off-the-cuff remarks from world leaders, including President Obama, at the G20 in 2011, grousing to the then French president, Nicolas Sarkozy, about Benjamin Netanyahu (“You may be sick of him, but me, I have to deal with him every day”), and Jacques Chirac, who, at a European summit in the early 2000s, said of the UK: “You cannot trust people who have such bad cuisine. It is the country with the worst food after Finland.” Rude! So far in Évian-les-Bains no one has dropped much of a clanger, and all the evidence suggests that, despite being thoroughly sick of him, world leaders are still rolling in the aisles at the slightest hint of a joke by Donald Trump. At the summit opening, the US president cracked everyone up by entering a meeting room with the words: “I’m the boss!” – which will get ’em every time. Meanwhile, the Italian prime min