O What a Beautiful Morning.
Actually, it’s a grey damp start to a new Era here in London. But despite sleeplessness and hangovers, the world seems a lot brighter today. People are walking with a spring in their step.
What happened last night? What happened over the last year? Did I dream all that? Did America, the country that gave George Bush two terms: whose voters were robbed in 2000, bamboozled in 2004: did that same country really elect this smart, dedicated, eloquent, passionate man called Barack Hussein Obama?
When our most read newspaper, a famously right wing tabloid, publishes a headline like this, then you know the world has changed, changed utterly…