We live in troubling times, globally and regionally, with not the least of our troubles being the current occupant of the White House.
What most troubles me about Donald Trump — and I think should trouble all of us whatever our political leanings, and I’m conscious that not all of you here will share mine — is not just the dumb destructiveness of his assault on all that is best in the global economic and security order we have known since the end of World War II, an order from which just about everyone, not least the US itself, has benefitted.
Being a good international citizen in a Trumpian world