Mr Trump can’t be all wrong

Sir, - It seems clear to me that George W. Bush, Barack Obama, Tony Blair, Gordon Brown and Angela Merkel together with virtually the entire Western establishment got the two main challenges of the 21st century entirely wrong.

They largely failed to understand or remedy the effects of September 11 2001 or the credit crunch of 2008 when we undoubtedly needed leaders with quite different outlooks.

Whether Donald Trump was quite what most had in mind, I have to admit that of his 12 executive orders, eight (mainly deregulatory and anti-green) look pretty much spot on.

I can see the problem with Mexico, now the home to some of the worst drug cartels on the planet, but insisting it pays for less porous border control is a bit of a reach.

Again, elderly European ladies being frisked at Heathrow while Middle Eastern youths walk blithely by, demands some common sense and profiling.

Blanket bans? I’m not so sure, however,the hysterical attacks launched by foul-mouthed geriatric celebrities and marching “wimmin” suggest to me that if such awful people are against him, he cannot be totally wrong. Rev Dr John Cameron. 10 Howard Place, St Andrews.