It was as if Donald Trump had turned into the Dalai Lama or Yoko Ono. Here was the most Right-wing US President since Ronald Reagan, and he turned out to be a peacenik.

Trump divides the world into winners and losers. Putin, in his view, is an epic winner. And the fact that the Russian ...

Then they huddled bed clothes around themselves, sat up and simpered at Edward of Wales. He, restless, hurried on to visit half a dozen East End dives. At one a sailor, elated with rum ...

Earlier visits by Emmanuel Mac­ron and Keir Starmer had given us an inkling about how these tributary exchanges are meant to go. Macron and Starmer flattered and simpered. Starmer massaged Trump’s ego ...