I was amused when I heard Donald Trump’s response to learning that he was Time magazine’s Person of the Year. I remember from years gone by some of the recipients of this "award" were people Trump would not like to stand alongside. We all know what he thinks of the Clintons (Bill was Person of the Year in 1992) and he went into a big sulk when Angela Merkel was so named a year ago. Of course, his favourite, Barack Obama, was twice named (2008 and 2012). If we go further back in history we find people like Adolf Hitler (1938), Joseph Stalin (1939 and 42) and Anwar Sadat in 1979, who famously referred to the US as "The Great Satan". Other Russian leaders were Nikita Khrushchev in 1957, Mikhail Gorbachev (1987 and 1989) and Trump’s new best friend Vladimir Putin in 2007 — one wonders how long these two will be cosying up to one another. Trump should not be reading too much into being Time’s Person of the Year. It is definitely not an honour in the category of a knighthood in England. I...
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