Across the UK, across continental North America and around the world, on the internet by webcast

and by podcast, my name is Howard Hughes and this is the unexplained.

While I'm recording this on a very peculiar morning for the world, and it's a morning

of cold, grey, heavy rain in London, and it just so happens that four minutes ago, Donald

J. Trump made a speech that confirmed that he was to be the next president of the United

States beating Hillary Clinton after on this side of the Atlantic what was a rollercoaster

night.

And I have to say I was awake for most of it.

Now I don't share any political views here and I don't think what I would have to say

would be of any use or interest anyway.

But I think I can say this, what we've seen overnight is again the expression of a popular

sentiment and that is the expression that we had here with Brexit.

It is people who are perhaps tired of globalization, tired of being pushed around, tired of machine

politicians speaking.

Now whether they made the right decision or whether they made the wrong decision is not

for me and in many ways history books of the future will only be able to tell that story.

We can't right now.

But it is interesting that through the internet, social media, popular culture various ways,

people have decided to circumvent the mainstream media to create a whole narrative around all

of this.

I don't sound like some kind of political commentator because I'm not.

I'm just a journalist who does radio shows, but it is an interesting, fascinating phenomenon

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