Which brings me to the prevaricating, second-guessing, self-abasing Sir Keir Starmer — prime minister of a nuclear power that dwarfs the likes of Finland and Belgium, and has an economy half as large again as Canada’s. Unlike Finland, the UK does not share a border with Russia. Unlike Canada, it does not share a border with America. Yet Britain is acting as if it has the most to lose. Notwithstanding the UK’s umbilical defence ties to America, the reality is close to the opposite. Moreover, the evidence keeps piling up that the cost of resisting Trump is considerably lower than bending the knee. If Starmer sticks to this posture, he will stake a claim to being the 21st-century reincarnation of Neville Chamberlain. OK, perhaps that’s hyperbolic. Trump is not Hitler. But appeasing Trump only invites further aggression.