After this, what more proof does Britain need that it cannot ‘cosy up’ to Trump? | William Keegan

With the US disengaging from its traditional relationship with Europe, we need to abandon our red lines' and rekindle ties with our neighbours

Alas: that the infantile wrecker in the White House has blinked" may be some relief; but the damage he is wreaking on his own country and the rest of us persists.

Amid the chaos, conspiracy theories abound. Is Trump a useful idiot" of even darker forces? What has Putin got on a president who succeeds a long line of (mostly) admirable predecessors, who saw Russian leaders as enemies with whom they had to coexist, not as friends?