After President Biden was described last week as “an elderly man with a poor memory”, many of the world’s media questioned his fitness for a second term at the age of 81. As one old man to another, I have some advice: Don’t do it, Joe.

I am almost the age at which Biden commences his first presidential term. Even if I had the political experience and the opportunity, I would not contemplate taking on the job. Nor had any other American politician before him at that age.

Based on what my own body tells me, and on what I see around me, the prospect of anyone presiding over the most powerful nation of Earth until he is 86 fills me with dread.

It is the same sort of dread I feel at the prospect of the post being held by a septuagenarian lunatic who thinks the way to increase NATO defence spending is to invite Russia to invade some of its member states. Continue reading “From one old man to another: Time to call it quits” →