That noise you heard was the sound of relief sweeping across the US. After several days of counting votes and nearly four years of a corrosive regime, voters chose character over corruption, unity over division, truth over lies — and elected Joe Biden as the 46th US president.

It was fitting that Philadelphia was the place to push Biden over the top — the cradle of US democracy became the city that may restore the national honour tarnished by Donald Trump...

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