The late Robert Jordan used the expression “Let the
lord of chaos rule” in his fantasy epic The Wheel of Time. For the Trump
White House that seems to be standard operation procedure. Willy nilly, the
rest of the world follows in its trail. With a mercurial president whose
attention swings from the Stormy Daniels scandal to Russian electoral
interference to North Korea’s nuclear programme, and Twitter as the preferred
medium for policy leads, no one knows what comes next or why it con