The problem is not Clinton or Corbyn: social democracy itself is dead

Brinkmanship is back, and the world is back on the brink of war.

Trump’s action in Syria signals the US impotence under Obama is over.

Europe is free to bind closer and hurt a UK desperate for deals elsewhere

“All terrorists are politely reminded that this is London and whatever you do to us we will drink tea and jolly well carry on. Thank you.” It was hard not to smile at the messages such as this that appeared online in the wake of Khalid Masood’s murderous rampage through Westminster. How ineffably British. The stiff upper lip. Keep calm and carry on.

Only in China could there already be a museum of internet finance. Though most Britons have barely adopted the term “fintech”, online banking is old hat in Beijing.

These are among the many, many things journalists like to say are “unprecedented” about the administration of President Donald Trump. Yet all the things I have just written could equally well have been written about Richard Nixon’s administration.

It was almost exactly 52 years ago, on March 8, 1965, that the first American combat battalions came ashore at Da Nang, South Vietnam.

“Breaking rocks in the hot sun / I fought the law and the law won.”