You found it odd that there was no immigration officer checking passports at Dublin ferry port. You have, after all, just entered the EU from a Britain that has left, but it was as if you’d just driven from Chigwell to Epping; no one cared. A suspicion flashes through you that Great Britain and Ireland are one and the same. It was not long before you were driving along the Liffey, where glass buildings were announcing themselves proudly along the waterfront.

Steven Spielberg has tried to make aliens cool again. It hasn’t worked. Perhaps in Disclosure Day he intended to use extraterrestrials as a meditation on faith in a secular age. Perhaps he meant to challenge Christianity with demonstrations of science. But what’s he’s actually given us is a film about child abduction, bodily possession and psychological manipulation. Disclosure Day is the latest in the many media properties about visitors from beyond the stars.