UK must get off Trump's tightrope

FOR decades, Britain’s security has rested on one seemingly immovable pillar: the alliance with the United States.

- CHRISTOPHER BUCKTIN US Editor

Today, that pillar feels less like solid ground and more like a fraying tightrope.Donald Trump's latest tirade against America’s allies lays bare why. Angered that Britain and Spain have refused to blindly sign up to an offensive against Iran, he lashed out in familiar fashion - personal, petulant and historically absurd.

Dismissing the Prime Minister as “no Winston Churchill” and grumbling about aircraft flight times and island leases is not strategy. It is irritation dressed up as resolve.