I’ve been genuinely successful in distracting myself from the US election for the most part – I’m off twitter, away from the frantic TV news-cycle, trying to concentrate on work I need to do. But someone on Instagram captions their pic that they’re flying home from the US this evening, leaving without knowing who has won, and landing in the UK tomorrow to the news of the next president. I wonder whether my dad (who captained commercial US routes frequently) would have made an announcement mid-flight, as soon as he knew. I wonder whether it would cause a riot on board. I wonder when we’ll all remember it generally suits more of us across this small planet if we support kindness and generosity rather than the promise of lower taxes and no damn strangers in town.