Trump threatened a whole civilisation, Starmer hid behind the drapes, then flew out to pose beside the ceasefire once the danger had already passed. Right, so Donald Trump threatened Iran with civilisational destruction and Keir Starmer hid. That is the story of the UK response to Trump’s ultimate threat against Iran which fortunately did not come to pass isn’t it? Trump put out that if Iran did not make a deal then “a whole civilization will die tonight,” which is not hard-man bluster, though obviously he thinks otherwise, it is his way; it is not diplomatic pressure, it not some mangled phrase needing a clean-up crew from the Foreign Office, but a public threat against an entire country, an existential threat to a civilisation thousands of years old and Britain’s prime minister couldn’t find his spine. He did not step out and shut it down. He d ...