I was in Versailles in early 2017 with Madeleine Albright. She was complaining bitterly of the unfairness of Donald Trump’s election victory over Hillary Clinton. It was populism, Fox News, the Russians, fake news on social media. Ah yes, I said. And your candidate was flawless and Obama’s eight years without fault. Silly people.

Then on the ABC the other day, I heard a denunciation of the emergence of so-called far right political parties in Europe – Alternative für Deutschland in Germany, Giorgia Meloni and her Brothers of Italy, Marine Le Pen in France, Vox in Spain, and so on.