How are the mighty fallen, and what’s more, how quickly! One day Viktor Yanukovych, President of Ukraine, could stride around his huge estate admiring the wonderful views across the Dnieper, his fantastic car collection and his motley collection of emus and ostriches. Now here was I, cycling around the place, as free as a bird, while he had done a runner across the Russian border. Sic semper tyrannis. The path from hero to zero for the Yanukovyches of this world is fairly well-trodden.