As we go to print the US election hangs in the balance. Both candidates have made late night speeches; one designed to ‘pause’ the expectations of his supporters and the other to set up the narrative ‘we wuz robbed’. In the case of the Joe Biden speech, a cynic might believe that its secondary purpose was to ramp up the expectations of his more – how shall we put it? – ‘passionate’ supporters (aka Antifa and Black Lives Matter) so that the let-down will be that much greater if/when Donald Trump does indeed win, thus paving the way for another...
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