To be honest I’m not sure how much say about this, given that I’m not American so I don’t have any real right to interfere in or comment on American party politics. Yet the fact is that America remains the world’s most powerful nation, and what happens there effects us all. The fact also remains that it’s becoming clearer and clearer that their current president is becoming less and less fit for office: anyone watching can see that age is swiftly catching up on Joe Biden, and people like me are starting to worry whether he’ll be able to hold his ground against Donald Trump.

At the end of the day, the last thing the world needs right now is for the USA to let Trump back into office: He’s a total charlatan obviously under Putin’s control, and things are likely to take a very dark, worrying term if he gets back into power. Of course, we can hope that any sensible American would vote for anyone opposing Trump, including Biden; but it’s becoming increasingly clear that the Democrats need a proper candidate to stand up to Trump, and that Biden probably won’t be able to deal with the disgrace to humanity as he needs to. Any decent, educated, articulate politician should be able to send Trump back to the fetid hole he belongs in, but given the recent evidence it’s not at all clear that Biden will be able to.

As much as we may like Biden, then, and as much as we may prefer him to the spoiled man-child the Republicans selected to oppose him, we can only hope that American Democrats see the light, choose to be sensible and put forward a younger, fitter candidate. Until then, we can only watch as Biden deteriorates even further, and worry about the carnage we’re likely to see, not only in the coming presidential debates, but also if Trump regains control of the world’s most powerful economy.