Today should be Maria Corina Machado’s day , and let’s not exaggerate, to an extent it will be: she has, after all, just been awarded the Nobel Peace Prize, and the roughly $1m cash prize that goes with it.

She has the kind of track record befitting of a worthy winner of the award, too. She is an opposition leader in a country that barely tolerates dissent. She’s faced censorship, legal threats, and physical assault in the course of her campaigning. She’s won international awards and been recognised on multiple previous occasions.

And yet, on hearing about this year’s Nobel Peace Prize winner most of us will have just one immediate reaction: so, they didn’t give it to Donald Trump, then.

This American president has the habit of taking up all of the oxygen in any room he enters, and he

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