When I was the DS speechwriter for Theresa, Nick T and I determined we’d use speeches to make big arguments and put ideas at the heart of politics again. And we did. TM made some meaty, challenging speeches. But try getting most political correspondents to report anything beyond the superficial.

“A European intelligence agency distributed a hard-copy report in a manila envelope to some of the continent’s most senior national security officials...inside were details of the commercial and economic plans the US had been pursuing with Russia, including jointly mining rare earths in the Arctic.”

He seems genuinely unable to explain what a Kamala Harris Panorama episode should have reported, given she did not actually lead an insurrection against the Capitol. And yet it's a point he keeps returning to as if it's one of his best.

The plan says that "A dialogue will be held between Russia and NATO, mediated by the United States." This implies that both Russia and the Trump administration don't see the US as part of NATO in any real sense. That should deeply alarm every other NATO state.