If liberal centrists on both sides of the Atlantic simply keep waiting for politics to return to "normal" they risk a very rude awakening, argues Neal Lawson
      
  Keir Starmer
The PM's pronouncement that Britain need not choose between the US and Europe is 'downright reckless' and an 'exercise in dangerous delusion', argues Clive Lewis 
      
  With Starmer thrust into a damage limitation exercise by the Ukraine crisis, Chris Painter reflects on the fluctuating relations between British Prime Ministers and American Presidents. 
      
  Keir Starmer's attempts to be an "honest broker" with Donald Trump are doomed to failure, argues Adam Bienkov
      
  The UK must accept that its economic and political interests now lean heavily towards Europe, argues Richard Barfield
      
  With the US potentially allied to Russia over the fate of Ukraine, there needs to be a root and branch rethinking of British and European security 
      
  Britain will never truly change for the better as long as Britain's deeply unfair voting system remains in place, argues Neal Lawson
      
  Before the Prime Minister heads to Washington he must wake up to the fact that the UK's real allies may now lie elsewhere, argues UK diplomat Alexandra Hall Hall
      
  Labour's attempt to mimic Nigel Farage's Reform on immigration is a fundamental misunderstanding of its electoral base, argues Neal Lawson
      
  If the Government attempts to mimic the anti-migration politics of Reform it will be a recipe for defeat, argues Jennifer Nadel