IT’S been a long two years, but here we are at last at the mid-point of Donald Trump’s second term as American president.

Unlike his first term, this time around we could not claim Trump had no right to the presidency. Hillary Clinton trounced him in the popular vote, but he beat Kamala Harris fair and square.

Today, voters get the opportunity to give their verdict on the past two years.

But it’s not just Americans who have skin in this game. Trump’s actions in office, aided and abetted by a compliant Congress and supine Supreme Court, have had a dramatic impact on all our lives.

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The world is quite simply worse off than it was just two short years ago; and we are all immeasurably less safe than we once were.

The Doomsday Clock is now less than a minute and a half to midnight – the closest our world has ever been to global catastrophe. Thirty years ago it was more than a quarter of an hour to midnight.

To use that chilling phrase, we are in the middle of a perfect storm. It’s not just climate change, but the threat of AI, the collapse of our planet’s biodiversity, a growing number of conflicts........

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