Though I’m a republican, I do feel for King Charles as he prepares to go to the unstable United Sates of America. He is expected to placate and win over the capricious, tyrannical Trump. How humiliating for him. How humiliating for us.

In 1946, Winston Churchill gave his famous Iron Curtain speech, which affirmed an indissoluble Atlanticist alliance between Britain and America. Every generation since then has held on to that idea. It’s a delusion. The truth is that after America gained independence, its previous coloniser became a supplicant.

After the British empire ended, our movers and shakers attached themselves to the most powerful Western nation hoping that would continue their history of supremacy. Pathetic really. Yes, Nato and military and economic challenges made co-operation with the US necessary. But our neediness and abject self-subjugation was and is exceptional and exceptionally damaging. It has stopped us from imagining a different, liberated future. The cringeworthy picture put out last week by Deputy PM David Lammy of him with his “friend” JD Vance said it all.

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