Emboldened by Trump, the ‘liberal’ UK is giving free rein to its colonial impulses | Kenneth Mohammed

Faced with fading empires' petulance, the global south must draw a red line under its relationship with them and forge new ties based on mutual respect

As Donald Trump rains chaos down upon the US - dismantling the rule of law trading in rage-fuelled nationalism and bullying the rest of the world - his ideology is now being eagerly imitated not just by the expected rogues of global politics, but by supposed bastions of democracy.

These democracies now wear only a mask of civility over that old colonial impulses: control, divide, exploit.