Of course, Donald Trump has not won the Nobel Peace Prize. The Scandinavian grandees on the committee wouldn’t dream of honouring him. It was silly to think that they would. The award has gone instead to María Corina Machado, the Venezuelan opposition figure, so well done to her. Yet, it speaks to the fundamental vanity of our age that the Nobel is today’s big story, as if the complexity of world affairs can be boiled down to a yearly episode of Peace Has Got Talent .

The Nobel is a joke and has been for some time

The headlines chirp that Trump has ‘failed in his bid’ to secure the prize. And no doubt America’s Commander-in-Chief would have been thrilled at the honour, just as he was by the royal welcome he received from King Charles in Britain last month.

But Trump and his team are

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