Donald Trump, in his now familiar style of presidential pronouncements that he perceives will solve the world’s problems at a stroke, has declared that the solution to the ongoing humanitarian disaster in Gaza is to ‘clear out’ the entire Palestinian population of almost three million and relocate them to adjacent countries – specifying Jordan and Egypt as his chosen states to receive this influx.
I can’t believe it comes under the remit of Sir Keir Starmer to hand back the Chagos Islands to Mauritius in a deal that could reportedly now cost us £18billion to lease them back over 99 years, instead of the original £9billion.
It comes from a president who has signalled a virtual embargo on admitting disadvantaged immigrants to his own country and is even proposing to cancel US citizen status for children born in the US of immigrant parents.
As a teacher who twice simply picked up a teen who was violently beating a smaller teen on the floor only to be reprimanded for doing so, one can only suppose that discipline is now in the hands of the teenage thugs.
There is nothing quite like opening a copy of a fresh, morning Metro and having a cheeky sniff of the newsprint.
