Keir Starmer must be praying Afghanistan distracts from the quiet defeat of his plan for national self-harm – Lee Cohen

Yet politics is not judged on tact or sensitivity—it is measured by outcomes: sovereignty preserved, security strengthened, blunders averted. On this score, Trump’s intervention over the Chagos Islands has delivered where Starmer failed spectacularly. The president’s January 20 Truth Social post was devastatingly precise: “Shockingly, our ‘brilliant’ NATO Ally, the United Kingdom, is currently planning to give away the Island of Diego Garcia, the site of a vital U.S. Military Base, to Mauritius, and to do so FOR NO REASON WHATSOEVER. There is no doubt that China and Russia have noticed this act of total weakness… The UK giving away…