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They’re a part of life in Japan: Schoolchildren are trained to drop, cover and hold on when they hear the alerts; TV shows are interrupted by a familiar chime with an announcer providing details of the expected shaking; and cellphones automatically broadcast audible alerts.

If Walz can initiate and embody that conversation over the next 90 days, in terms that chime with swing voters and undecideds, and in language that is playful and irreverent and goofy, it will be the best thing to happen to a Democratic Party that has avoided the topic of court reform for two decades too long.

His views on a global future for this damagingly split sport do not seem to chime with the American dominated body.

Now it's "Mr No Independent Palestine": a position he believes will chime with the public mood here that, while increasingly out of love with its prime minister, is still too traumatised to conceive of a Palestinian state next door.

The downbeat comments chime with increasing fatigue in Ukraine, which has been struggling to push back against a Russian invasion since February 2022, and a more gloomy mood setting in among Kyiv's Western backers as the war drags on.