Poles fighting for their constitution are on the cusp of a crisis

It’s still possible to hope that the Trump presidency might not be as bad as the president-elect has promised, that some of his wilder notions might be filed under ‘electioneering’.

It may be too late, though, to hope that Theresa May’s government has some idea of how to deliver the Brexit mandate expressed last June.

It is still not too late to hope that the swing to the right represented by those developments might be, to borrow a phrase, “soft landing” swings to the right.