Joe Biden has picked a fight with tyranny. The west must hope he wins | Simon Tisdall

To counter the influence of Vladimir Putin and Xi Jinping, the US-led alliance has to show that freedom is worth fighting for

It was a deadly week for democracy. US president Joe Biden launched a rescue effort to save the soul of the nation" that the dementor-in-chief, Donald Trump, AKA Lord Voldemort, is conspiring to steal.

Russia lost a great man whose titanic struggle for reform was fatally torpedoed by a pint-sized usurper named Vladimir Putin. And China was saddled with indefinite dictatorship under the dead hand of Xi Jinping.

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