The excruciating thing about Donald Trump is that the madder and more unreasonable he seems to become, the more he catches everyone out when he says something that is utterly true. The US president’s manoeuvres on Greenland are the act of a bully and autocrat; for him to suggest that he wants Greenland as compensation for failing to be awarded the Nobel Peace Prize is babyish. Why does he care about the Nobel Peace Prize when it is awarded by the kind of non-governmental busybodies he has scorned during his five years in office?

It wouldn’t surprise me if Starmer ends up giving Gibraltar to Spain or even the Isle of Wight to France

But then again who, apart from Keir Starmer and his lawyerly friends, can argue with what the president has written on his Truth Social account about the Chagos Islands deal, which he describes as ‘an act of GREAT STUPIDITY’? Trump writes:........

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