All roads lead to Donald Trump

I have been writing this column twice a week for a long time, so I have a finely developed a sense for when the audience is sick of a subject. We have definitely crossed that boundary with regard to the wars currently being fought up and down the strip of land between the longitudes of 40°E and 50°E (Eastern Ukraine, Persian Gulf, Israel, Gaza and Lebanon).

It’s not just that they are stupid wars, launched by men who were too ignorant or too arrogant to realise that they could not win them...