Impeachment bid splits America: Polarisation is a trap we must avoid

Stormont, despite positive post-election noises, remains mothballed. Tribalism is re-energised.

Even were he to establish the Jeffrey Epstein Chair of Gender and Equality Studies at a university in one of America’s deep-red states, and appoint Harvey Weinstein the founding professor, US president Donald Trump would not face the sentence imposed on Pakistan’s former military ruler Pervez Musharraf. Musharraf, who seized power in 1999, has been sentenced to death for high treason.

As he anticipated the black-cap judgment he no longer lives in Pakistan, so the sentence is hollow and largely symbolic.