Or do you think Trump looked at our grovelling, Yes-Mr-President-Sir complicity and thought: I can do absolutely anything I want to these pathetic ball-suckers, and they will smile into the camera and say Thank you.

What did we think Trump was going to do, if Europe showed him we would fully collaborate on the total destruction of the Gaza Strip and ferociously repeat even the most absurd lies about it to our citizens? Did we think he would decide: best to not push the law breaking and war crimes, be sensible.

Ta Nehisi Coates called this right: people who will not draw a line at genicide are not going to draw a line at democracy, and I expect this will play out in all kinds of innovative and very exciting ways here in Britain, never mind America.

This is a great piece !