A WEEK is a long time in politics as the well-worn adage goes but it certainly rang true again on both domestic and overseas fronts over the last seven days.

The whole world watched on Wednesday as the veteran and widely respected politician Joe Biden was sworn in as the 46th President of the United States, accompanied for the first time in American history, by a woman as Vice President – the ultra-talented lawmaker and Californian politician Kamala D. Harris.