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He’d baked it with almond milk, lemon zest and those same backyard blackberries, set in a baby-blue ceramic pie plate that looked like it had been borrowed from a grandmother’s kitchen.

Could it be that Erdogan has fingers in too many pies - including Russia, Ukraine, Syria, and Nato - for European leaders to want to pick a fight?

After all these years, he’s still planning ahead, and there will be more stair climbs and more opportunities for blueberry pie.

He bought pies from a fruit stand off Interstate 80 between San Francisco and Sacramento and delivered them as apologies to targets of his rants.

Time and again the response back from London is that Stormont is receiving its fair share of the financial pie and that all governments have to take difficult decisions.