After 80 years we can no longer expect America to protect us, and paying for our defence will require brutal honesty
VE Day feels like a good moment to quit wasting breath on abuse of Donald Trump. Let me explain my meaning: of course he and JD Vance are brutes whose tenancy of the White House is a global tragedy. But the rest of us must get down to thinking constructively about what we do next. Which does not include taking a shameful Open to Turnberry.
War commemorations are traditionally occasions at which we reprise twaddle about the special relationship, such as Churchill expounded publicly but never privately. Behind closed doors, he raged at the ruthlessness of American treatment of Britain, especially about money.
TDS and a touch entitled.
