Trump’s jump into the US political pool threatens tsunamis in Europe

Trump is dangerously polarising politics across the globe

Emmanuel Macron is the chief beneficiary of this spectacular implosion Pic: Getty

It is a funny old world – politics. A few weeks ago, François Fillon appeared to be on course to win the French presidency. But an Exocet has hit his campaign in the form of a scandal about his placing of his wife on the public payroll as a parliamentary assistant when in fact she carried out no such function.

The size of her ill-gotten gains is matched only by the hugely brazen ...