* Joe Biden wins US election after four tumultuous years of Trump * President-elect says ‘This is the time to heal’ in victory speech * Trump refuses to concede defeat as recriminations begin * How do you feel? Share your reaction to the US election * Biden’s win marks the end of Trump’s war on democracy and truth * Trump v Biden – full 2020 results as they come in 1.49pm GMT THE THE US HAS RECORDED ITS FOURTH CONSECUTIVE RECORD DAILY TOTAL OF NEW COVID CASES. According to Johns Hopkins University, 127,399 cases were recorded on Saturday, bringing the total recorded to nearly 9.9m. More than 1,000 deaths were recorded, bring the national toll close to 237,000. 1.39pm GMT Former Greek finance minister and economist YANIS VAROUFAKIS writes for us today, warning that the discontent that swept Trump to power in 2016 has not gone away, and that to pretend it has will only invite future disaster. Normalcy and the restoration of a modicum of decorum to the White House: that is what many elite supporters of Joe Biden hope for now that he has won the election. But the rest of us are turned off by this meagre ambition. Voters who loathe Trump celebrate his loss, but the majority rue the return to what used to pass as normal or ethical. When Trump contracted Covid-19, his opponents feared he might benefit from a sympathy vote. But Trump is not a normal president seeking voters’ sympathy. He doesn’t do sympathy. He neither needs nor banks on it. Trump trades on anger, weaponises hatred and meticulously cultivates the dread with which the majority of Americans have been living after the financial bubble burst in 2008. Obscenities and contempt for the rules of polite society were his means of connecting with a large section of American society. Continue reading...
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