Writing this a day before the US presidential election, I’m pretty certain that Barack Obama will win it. Not that I have much confidence in America’s voters – or at least the majority that gave the Bush regime two terms in office.

Despite seeing a trillion of their hard-earned dollars thrown away on the idiotic Iraq adventure, and another trillion or so squandered on desperate attempts to fix their own plundered economy, millions are apparently happy to bank on more of the same from John McCain.