Last night on the way home from the pub, a close friend of mine committed the mortal sin of walking through a London park alone with his phone out.

Some scumbag snatched his phone and the innocent victim of this crime referred to it as an expensive lesson learned. This sort of behaviour is pretty standard in the capital, so much so that I warn my parents not to take their phones out in central London even in the daytime.

It doesn’t even occur to people to call the police about such things, it’s just an accepted fact of living in what is descending into a hellhole.

So it’s good to see that while thugs and thieves are getting away with their minor assaults on civilisation our Mayor of London is once again prioritising slagging off Donald Trump.

Sadiq Khan claims that the US President Elect has singled him out for criticism in the past and that he would not have done so if he had a different skin colour.

Calling him “sexist, homophobic, Islamophobic, racist”, he added: “It’s personal, let’s be frank. If I wasn’t this colour, if I wasn’t a practising Muslim, he wouldn’t have come for me.

“He wasn’t criticising me because I’m five foot six. He was coming for me because of – let’s be frank – my ethnicity and my religion, so it’s incredibly personal to me.”

Has it escaped Mr Khan that The Donald has just appointed Vivek Ramaswamy, who also has south Asian heritage, to head up the Department of Government Efficiency with Elon Musk?

Of course, the leader of the free world could still do this and have problem with his appointee’s skin colour, but as there is no evidence of this of which I’m aware, I’m inclined not to invest in such a belief.

It could be that Trump has a problem with Khan being a practising Muslim. But wouldn’t he have said so if that was the case? This is a man who was brazen enough to run on a platform that included a total ban on Muslims entering the US.

Instead, The Donald has mined the pits of the Trump lexicon to whip out a childish gem, referring to Khan as a “stone-cold loser”.

I’ve written previously that I suspect Trump can be thin-skinned and my hunch is that his remarks about Khan are driven by his petty fury at a Donald Trump baby blimp being approved for flight during his London visit.

But, rather than attempting to see into Trump’s mind and dissect his possible prejudices, I’d much rather Sadiq Khan fix the broken city some of us call home.