Peter Rhodes on a new mole, a queue at the surgery and how to deal with President Trump

It came during that casual press conference at his Florida HQ, as the votes were being cast and the future of our planet was at stake. This was low-volume Trump, no longer raging at his enemies or howling for vengeance but reflecting soberly on America's shambolic, supercomputer-driven voting system which can take days to deliver the count and costs nearly ten times as much as a simple, paper-form system.

For a moment he sounded more like an accountant than the shouty leader of MAGA, more like someone we can (and, of course, must) do business with.