Hang on. I’m not hallucinating here. Am I? Round about 27 seconds into this excellent trailer for the upcoming Muppets Most Wanted we see a shot of a familiar newspaper with Kermit’s face (or his double’s) upon it. At first, you think: well it could be some other “Times”. After all, we only get to see the last word of the paper’s name. And some rogue may have stolen our font. But a headline on the sidebar argues: “The Unionists may have won, but for some the perception is they lost.” Oh Lord. Well that story can only emerge from one country. It’s your soaraway Irish Times all right. Take that, Guardian. You may get yourself all over The Fifth Estate and whichever Bourne film it was, but we get ourselves into the film that really matters.

Everything else about the trailer looks absolutely smashing. It seems that some evil twin of Kermit is doing awful things and has a bad guy called Badguy along for the ride. The trailer does set down in a very nice part of Dublin. (Is that Dalkey, posh readers?) Ricky Gervais and Tina Fey offer human support. I can’t wait.

We later learnt that the Australian and US trailer features an image of the whole paper. So it looks as if any ambiguity will be dispelled in the film itself. Muppets Most Wanted comes our way in March.