Rabbitrunning, why such confidence that the Nazis would have been permanent. Even Hitler was aiming lower, with his 1,000-year Reich. And whatever the consequences of America getting into that war, it's worth remembering that what did it was not any act of Roosevelt or Congress, but Hitler declaring war on the US. (That must be just about the most deeply buried fact of modern times.)

The death penalty is a big issue with me too McGrath. I'm against it on moral grounds but accept that if most people are in favour, then in a democracy it's their choice. But if they're going to kill people, they surely have an obligation to be fair about it - and those states in the US that kill people are demonstrably not fair about it.

And unlike the US of A, but in line with the UN Declaration of Human Rights, I see no case for killing kids, no matter what they've done. I think among the nation states, the USA stands shoulder to shoulder with The Yemen on that one. And that won't change, whichever of these lightweights wins.