8 pm, CET. Awaiting the US election results nervously. If Trump wins it may be a sign of the final victory of capitalism. That’s what he represents and indeed personifies: not America, or democracy, but the worst aspects of a relatively unrestrained and increasingly criminal capitalist system. The America I know is better than this.

I hope to comment on the election more fully when the agony is over; which we’re told won’t be tonight or even tomorrow. (Or this week?) I’ll be sitting up nonetheless, glued in front of the TV, with a KFC ‘bucket’, and a few cans of Coors to hand. (How more American can you get?)

Pray for Kamala. – But of course those Americans who believe in the power of prayer, the ‘fundamentalists’, won’t.

Incidentally: here’s an interesting historical piece, showing that America has never been impervious to fascism: https://www.hnn.us/article/ohios-little-known-fascist-member-of-congress. Is that what’s coming this week?