World needs to defy Trump on free trade and globalisation
With hindsight, it is obvious that the Democrats fielded the wrong candidate for the US presidential race. Before getting into the main subject of this column, let me make a brief case for Kanye West, who I believe would have been the perfect opponent for Donald Trump. West raps regularly about his arrogance ("steam to power my dreams") and his lofty place in the universe ("I am a god") and as Mr Kim Kardashian, he understands the reality television playbook. Trump approached the presidential race like it was a rap battle, dissing the "establishment" and dropping hyperbolic one-liners on Twitter and elsewhere, but a lyricist like West would have shown him flames. The only snag to my time-travel fantasy is that last Thursday, West said that he would have voted for the ginger one.Protectionism has been painted as the instinct of the less developed. They have been lectured that globalisation has its losers, and they should bear the sacrifice for the greater good. But what about the los...
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