The past decade of British politics has had the dreamlike quality of a novel, a dystopian fiction where facts don't matter. Yet the sad, humbling process of watching this Brexit fantasy try to impose its rules on reality is coming to an end, as the electorate and politicians finally wish this nightmare would end.

Donald Trump is the biggest loser we’ve seen in a long time for scrapping climate action and ceding the clean energy race to China. By walking away from the battlefield and blackballing an entire sector of the economy, he completely missed the marketplace for goods that could be produced in the United States.