A conversation with the very engaging Professor Drew Westen, of Emory University, on the US election result, the incumbent president’s refusal to recognise it and some clinical answers to the perennial question of what, exactly, is his problem …

Neither of which contain the truth.

I had the peculiar, but not unfamiliar task this week of writing to a deadline that fell before the outcome of the US presidential election would be known; before the polls had even closed. It’s not my favourite challenge but it is always interesting – looking for something to say the night before that has a fighting chance of still being relevant the morning after.

I’m not best qualified to judge whether or not I managed it. At least the reference to Strictly Come Dancing in the intro is probably timeless.

Read it here: What Trump and Johnson show us about the need to restore a boundary between news and entertainment; politics and show biz.

Latest Guardian column, on a catch-22 for the Chancellor: serving in the cabinet puts him in pole position to succeed Johnson, but the longer he is loyal to the incumbent serves the less attractive he gets as a prospective prime minister. Here.

In this episode of the Guardian’s Politics Weekly podcast I talk about possible consequences of the upcoming US presidential election on politics in the UK, Europe and elsewhere.