Simon Brooke2d ago

"More fundamentally, we must ask why so much of official Britain, and especially its security establishment, keeps clinging for dear life to the United States, behaving for all the world like someone stuck in an abusive personal relationship"

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https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/mar/21/britain-us-special-relationship-trump-starmer

Love Actually? Washington’s current relationship with Britain is more like Contempt Actually

If the UK wants to regain serious respect in the world, it needs its European leg as well as its transatlantic one, says Guardian columnist Timothy Garton Ash

The Guardian
Show threadClaire McNab

@simon_brooke The UK clings to the USA so that it can continue to cosplay empire, long after the empire collapsed.

The UK gets piles of intel, and access to buy small doses of American war toys. Above all, the UK"s leaders still get to put on solemn voices and pontificate in favour of English-speakers massacring brown people, just as they have for centuries.

It's vicarious imperialism.

Mar 21 at 2:32pmWeb