Dani Garavelli: May’s trial by Trump almost excites sympathy

You might have thought (hoped) Theresa May’s last joint press conference with Donald Trump in Washington, in January 2017, when the US President dished out put-down after put-down, would have marked the nadir in British-American relations; that things, as…

• The Scotsman

But contemporary western politics is a bottomless hole; every time you convince yourself our representatives can go no lower, they slip further into the mire.

And so, on Friday, just hours after Trump and May had broken bread together at a gala dinner, we were treated to a two-hander even more humiliating than the…

• Dani Garavelli: May’s…