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“The Idiot” is a nearly five-hour slog by a Polish-Russian contemporary of Shostakovich about another Dostoevsky outsider who succumbs to visions of grandeur.

The slog of the first half was history and all that mattered was now.

She now has to slog it out, fighting for every vote, to stand a chance of breaking what the last woman to run for US president, Hillary Clinton, called “the highest, hardest glass ceiling”.

Unfortunately, some viewers may find this one a slog to get through.

It’s going to be a long slog, with at least one more trip through the federal courts — unless, that is, Trump wins the election and shuts down the prosecution.