Sanity returns?

I' ve read many letters and articles lately about the outlook for the UK and Scotland under a Trump or Biden presidency. Trump views ranged from it being a continued, disastrous, chloride chickenfed, corrupt, totalitarian roller coaster to acknowledgement that, for all his failings, he at least addressed the issues surrounding NATO payments, the emergence of China as the dominant superpower, unemployment, Korea, and the excesses of climate change policy, wokeism and BLM.

Biden has been viewed as the death of a post- Brexit UK-US trade deal, his Irish roots somehow a benefit to the SNP, and an example of the paucity of talent, inspiration and leadership in the Western political class.

If Chris Co ons, the De laware senator tipped to be Joe Biden's Secretary of State is anything togo by, doom sayers on either side maybe confounded and we can all be relieved and perhaps uplifted. In his inter view on the Marr Show yesterday he was invited to address the two main issues, Boris and Brexit.

He described the PM as agileminded, engaging, educated and forward looking on diversity and climate change. Based on the period between December and the end of March this year, I would agree. Challenged about Brexit and a US trade deal he invoked the many years of alliance and friendship between our countries as a good platform for a rational negotiation and agreement.

I felt I was watching the kind of person I would want to see as US President; rational, highly intelligent, plain-speaking, steeped in experience with a reputation for bi-partisanship, someone you can believe in. When asked by Andrew Marr, he described Joe Biden in similar terms. If he is an example of the kind of administration that Biden will put together we may not like it all but we might see a more even-handed approach to America's leadership of world democracy and some solutions to their own turmoil.

ALLAN SUTHERLAND Willow Row, Stonehaven