In any normal society, Joe Biden would be taking a well-earned rest after a life of public service, and Donald Trump would be in jail.

But the United States is anything but normal, and the world is looking on aghast as two elderly men fight it out for the right to be president for the next four years.

I have a lot of time for Biden. He has taken a country brought to collapse by his predecessor and begun the process of fixing it. He has managed the post-pandemic transition well, boosted the economy – with record levels of new jobs – and he has restored the United States’ reputation with its allies.

On the debit side, he will be called to account for his role in the Gaza conflict. The US response to Hamas’s assault on Israel, and Israel’s retaliation, needed to be much more nuanced. Innocent men, women and children died and are dying because the US failed to check Benjamin Netanyahu.

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Biden will also be challenged on his failure to deliver the single........

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