As 2020 reaches midpoint it is fair to say that it’s been a year like no other both at home and internationally, manifest most markedly in the two nations with which we have the closest ties.  The wildly distressing scenes from America that saw a health pandemic off the front pages to be replaced by a societal disorder so grave it threatens the very idea of one United States. President Donal Trump’s sense of self is so dominant that he and his acolytes choreographed disturbances outside the White House to allow him to address the nation about the need for…

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