It seems to me that, wth Donald Trump’s recent thuggish behaviour in Venezuela and his off-the-wall threats to invade Greenland, our special relationship with the US is special only in the sense that certain unfortunate children are said to have special educational needs.
Hardly a surprise then that we should be cosying up to China instead, now that the transatlantic union is broken: the PM’s trip to Beijing, the new Chinese Embassy in London etc. After all, there’s surely little difference now between China and the US, between East and West. Different styles of autocracy, different propaganda, different brainwashing, but the ends are the same.
Another possibility also exists of course: that Trump is the Antichrist and the world is about to end. Isn’t it a spooky coincidence that the end of time and the Day of Judgement, as foretold in the Bible, are said to be signalled by ‘the last trump’?
Robert Grossmith 