Tariff turmoil
A GLOBAL trade war over Greenland is in nobody’s interest.
President Trump has well-founded fears over Europe’s ability to defend the Arctic Circle from any Chinese and Russian aggression.
That’s why he wants Greenland — and to help build his own Golden Dome homeland defences.
But punishing Britain and European allies with an extra ten per cent tariff on all goods is no sensible way to get it.
It IS reasonable of the US to demand Europe step up and hold its side of the Nato bargain.
Despite repeated warnings, military spending — especially in Britain — is still woefully short of where it needs to be.
But while he is free to disagree with Keir Starmer’s undoubted weak response over rearmament, throwing a huge spanner into trade between the US and UK cannot be the answer.
Tariffs will make British goods much more expensive in America.
Some economists fear a big fall in exports could tip us into recession.
Threats of European retaliation will only make that economic uncertainty worse.
This entirely unnecessary argument also risks undermining Nato at a time of maximum world danger.
The PM must somehow persuade the President his current approach to Greenland is not the way to go.
Killer’s day out
IT defies all common sense that a psychotic killer could be safely freed back on to the streets just five months after being sentenced.
Yet that is exactly what hospital chiefs plan to do with highly dangerous schizophrenic Gogoa Lois Tape.
Drug addict Tape strangled young mum Kennedi Westcarr-Sabaroche in a jealous cannabis-fuelled attack.
A judge deemed Tape so lethally dangerous he faces being held in a secure hospital for the rest of his life.
So how can medics think he is ALREADY safe enough to have escorted visits in the community among an unsuspecting public?
It is also a terrible blow to Kennedi’s mum, who has barely even had time to mourn her loss.
Why is a monster’s rehabilitation being put before the grief of his victim’s family?
Lisa’s F-bomb
IT speaks volumes of Labour’s desperation, amid record unpopularity, that Lisa Nandy uses the F-word to describe Reform.
The Culture Secretary branding Nigel Farage — and voters who currently support him — as “fascists” isn’t the mark of a grown-up Government dealing with the clear problems of mass migration or illegal boat crossings.
It’s the very worst of name-calling student politics.
