Adam Young, the 11-year-old boy, is, technically, the Antichrist. But because he’s been given, via the mistake that sets up the story, a conventional small-town English upbringing by two loving parents, he’s less a force of pure evil than a kid struggling to learn where his ego has to yield to his obligations to others. He throws a temper tantrum and creation nearly immolates, but because at heart he shares the same essentially benevolent outlook as Aziraphale and Crowley, he gets over himself and remains a normal kid, happy to play with his hellhound (a feisty little black-and-white terrier) and get into scrapes with his friends. English modesty triumphs over ecstatic Christianity, and the near annihilation of the world takes on a funnily domestic character, as if theSupport Pambazuka

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Trump’s victory signals the inevitable implosion of the liberal order. This will pave the way for construction of the alternative, which comprises: at the national level, the abandonment of liberal economic management for the benefit of sovereign projects, giving rise to social progress; and at the international level, the construction of a system of polycentric globalization.

Donald Trump is an economic nationalist. In the wake of his electoral victory, the peoples of the Global South need to intensify their struggles against economic orthodoxy, and work on development alternatives that take into account the fact that all countries – without exception – are economic nationalists, including those that swear by the ideology of “free market globalisation”.

America’s policies under the Donald Trump White House are likely to hurt Africa.