Donald Trump

• INSOUCIANT UK responses to a boastful, misogynist, racist, deluded, Donald Trump America to January 2029, echo Franz Kafka: “His stories refuse to deliver what we expect to end happily or deliver some moral guidance as to why they didn’t end happily.

“We expect consolation, but there’s no salvation. The world isn’t run on morality and rationality; there is no connection between what we deserve and what we get.

“We expect a mysterious bureaucracy to be accessible, a court to be fair, an argument to be settled by appeals to factual truths, an illness to be curable by medicine, the door to the law to be democratically open, the Promised Land to deliver its promises.” (James Hawes: Why You Should Read Kafka Before You Waste Your Life).

Fat chance in the chasm between the world we want and the world we’re in for the rest of the 2020s. Commiserations and good luck!

MIKE BOR, W2