You don’t have to run, swim, and cycle to have an ‘iron’ heart

It's a crazy world. On Sunday, I followed the reports of the G7 Summit. All these leaders of the Western world were avoiding saying anything that would annoy US President Donald Trump, while struggling with the notion that this is a man who, for any reason at all, could shatter years, even decades, of carefully constructed agreements and institutions.

This is a man who takes personal offence because he announces that he would like to buy a very large part of another country and is turned down. You’d suspect that he’s secretly regretting that the rules of democracy prevent him from getting hold of Greenland the way his pal, Russian President Vladimir Putin, would have: Send in a couple of armoured divisions overnight and challenge Denmark to a war.