Why Conceding to Trump Didn’t Buy the UK Any Safety

From Greenland to the NHS, economic coercion only teaches one lesson: it works. - A long read

This morning I made a post on BlueSky in which I called Keir Starmer a doormat. Not directly, I was obviously a bit more oblique than that, but the point is that I did jump on a headline, and my first thought (some may say an intrusive one) was to shout “DOORMAT!” at a Prime Minister that is really between the proverbial rock and hard place.

I ended up t…