Imagine for a moment that you are Donald Trump. That might be difficult to do. Indeed, it should, as his behaviour is troubling the world and you are almost certainly quite unlike him but try for a moment.

It can’t be pleasant to have your threats rebuffed, on tariffs, on Greenland, against Canada and Iran. And why has that pipsqueak, Zelensky, not simply sold up and moved on?It also can’t be pleasant to be called names. Like misogynist, racist, bully or manbaby.

The problem is that those of us who find pleasure and nobility in sympathising with others, find it next to impossible to sympathise with those that don’t. If you are woke, like me, then your sensitivities are alert (awakened) to the travails of others. It requires empathy, and a certain amount of learning, but if you don’t have the former, no amount of the latter will do the trick. It is, quite clearly, not for everyone.

Donald Trump is the antithesis of woke, and I suspect would not object to me saying so. I believe that this natural division between the caring and the uncaring is at the heart of why he appears to see Europe as his main enemy. It is an entity that has chosen a path of caring for its citizens and others, and every such decision by European nations, every appeal to fairness, is an implicit but clear criticism of Trump and his coterie, telling them that their attitudes and behaviour are simply not good enough in the modern world.I have suggested before that evolution has created diversity of thought in humanity. That society functions best with a mix of, not just abilities, but attitudes, too, to sustain that variety, to see us through a great range of challenges. I think that the scientist who most studied and popularised this view was E.O. Wilson, initially from work on ants .

I was brought up during the Cold War. East versus West. Capitalism v Communism. Left v Right, based on an understanding, held by those on the Left, of the behaviour of the Rich towards the Poor.

Politics, for the moment, appears to have eschewed those divisions, both nationally and worldwide.Internationally, woke and the reaction to it, the feeling that it has gone too far, appear to dominate, as the U.S., Russia and Iran, with their dismissive and some would say malevolent attitude to those who might otherwise be their friends, pervade all.

Will the old International Order reassert itself, with the resumption of free trade and free movement through the Straits of Hormuz? Not immediately. It was hard won and easily lost.In Britain, we have witnessed a set of election results that are very different from a well-established order. But are they so divergent from the recent past?

Was there not another political party, also led by Nigel Farage, that had remarkable success, not so very long ago, in a European election?Brexit itself can be seen as part of this War on Woke. What was all that EU red tape Britain complained about, if not regulations protecting the rights of women and minorities, employees, those worse off than ourselves, restricting the wishes of individuals and companies to make their own individual pacts with health and safety? Controls that rein in the excesses and idiosyncrasies that come naturally with business and capitalism? Shocking! Whatever next?

The Right will hector, Farage will again beat his chest, and the Far Left will try to seize its moment. With any luck, the Government will continue to govern. In the interests of all.