It can't be, as soon as the abject terms of the deal Trump signed, far more worthy of "surrender bill" than any nonsense Johnson ever talked about in the Commons, are looked at for any… (View Post)

I vividly remember Blair theatrically rushing up the steps of Concorde around the time of this speech, on a whistle-stop global tour to drum up support for America's intervention, somewhere in o… (View Post)

The UK will only have any independent military weight as part of a European military structure, where it's strongly needed ; next to the US it's an irrelevance, as we can see. The current g… (View Post)

Seems to be working ok now. Further to the below, this is another excellent thread, by a Telegraph journalist in fact I think, on the humiliating terms of Trump's original deal : https://twitter… (View Post)

On Saudi Arabia being the first to recognise them, that may be more interesting than it looks. The Saudi state hate islamist movements like the muslim brotherhood and IS they consider a genuine threa… (View Post)