Eighty years ago this year, on 1st April, 1946, David Maxwell Fyfe cross-examined Hitler’s Foreign Secretary Joachim von Ribbentrop, often regarded as Hitler's ‘fool’, at the Nuremberg War Crimes Trials. As English Cabaret continue to perform Sue Casson's Dreams of Peace & Freedom, the story of David's journey from Nuremberg prosecutor to ECHR champion, for All Fools Day, Tom Blackmore reflects on changing perceptions of foolishness, and ponders who the fools are today.