Ambushed by tough questions, foreign secretary uses defensive strategy of avoiding answers

The reaction to the attacks was everything that Trump would have hoped for. Total confusion. Chaos. The president's speciality

- John Crace

The situation was, said the foreign secretary, "fast moving".

Fast moving as in totally sub-optimal. Fast moving as in completely out of his control. Fast moving as in he would rather have pulled the duvet over his head and pretend the whole thing had been a bad dream.

Maybe we all wish we could do that. These are the days that many of us would rather had never happened. Does the world feel any safer to you today?

Then there is no accounting for Donald Trump. Even Trump has no idea what Trump is going to do next. The only certainty is uncertainty. A man who lives almost entirely in the present. No sense of the past. No sense of the future. Just a collection of unpredictable neurons desperately trying to fire across the synapses.