Spectator competition winners: playing Cluedo with Trudeau, getting it on with Macron…

This time round, competitors were asked to provide poems about a bromance. Pairings including Friedrich and Karl, Laurel and Hardy, Nigel and Donald lit up an entry that was witty, touching and generally pleasingly varied. I liked Chris O’Carroll’s ‘Boris and Donnie’, a twist on Jimmie Rodgers’s ‘Frankie and Johnny’. And Bill Greenwell had the same idea, only with David and Jonathan from the Book of Samuel as the loved-up duo. Commendations also go to Shirley Curran, Jonathan Pettman, A.C. Smith and John Morrison. Basil Ransome-Davies’s entry transported me back to the 1970s, when real men wore chunky cream-and-brown hand-knit cardigans. He and his fellow winners, printed below, are rewarded with £25 each.

Basil Ransome-Davies There’s a legend in Bay City They don’t tell to strangers much, Concerning a man in a cardigan And his buddy, Detective Hutch.

I got some of the skinny By bribing Huggy Bear. He’d shuck and jive, then ‘Man alive!’ He chuckled, ‘What a pair!’

‘Man, that was made in Heaven.