Trump's Victory

It's a familiar feeling now, but still a bad one. One goes to bed with the commentators, the polls and the markets all calling it one way, as they have been doing for months, generating a very definite expectation: by the time one wakes up, the outcome is the opposite. This applies in sequence to our General Election in 2015, the Brexit vote and now Trump. At least in the General Election we had the ugly surprise of the BBC's exit poll calling it as a Tory victory as a warning: but it was a surprise, very much so.

As to Trump's victory - who among world politicians is excited today ? Who is happy ? Vladimir Putin, Geert Wilders and Marine le Pen.