JAMES WALLACE says the next year and a half will decide how history judges Joe Root’s captaincy of England

This week was a stark reminder that there are lies, damn lies and… the President. The sight of Donald Trump, clutching scraps of paper inked with graphs and charts and declaring to increasingly incredulous interviewer Jonathan Swann that America are lower than “the world” when it comes to coronavirus death rates is enough to convince anyone that numbers can be fudged any which way one likes.
Trump’s interview was more surreal than even ...