Irish Examiner view: Right-wingers in Australia and Canada may rue links to Donald Trump

Both countries go to the polls shortly

Mark Carney’s Liberals may benefit from revulsion at the antics of the US president.

When BBC DJ John Peel made plans to mark his own death, he chose an elegiac song to commemorate his passing — Roy Harper’s When An Old Cricketer Leaves The Crease.'

The question of what melody political leaders might choose to signal the extinguishing of their ambitions is an intriguing one but in the 2020s a frequent choice is the sound of silence.