He can learn lessons about the ‘special relationship’ from the Labour party’s history.
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No act of royal diplomacy, however well executed, can deliver an instant reset in the US-UK relationship.
The king’s speech pushed in interesting ways at the boundaries of what a British monarch might be expected to have said in Trump’s America.
Unlike previous US administrations, this one doesn’t consistently work with the British government to put a positive face on Anglo-American relations.
Trump has been looking for opportunities to lash out at Starmer over Iran. This may be his latest.
Wilson clashed with Lyndon B. Johnson on a personal level but made sure that the US and UK still cooperated where it most mattered.
Operation Epic Fury is a US military operation. It will not be possible for the UK to exert any significant influence in planning.
So long as the UK remains committed to progressive realism, the Trumpian realist pursuit of regime change will put even more pressure on the special relationship.
Donald Trump has said Keir Starmer is ‘no Churchill’, but his dismissal is based on a simplified version of history.
Pragmatic realism called for compromise when it came to Venezuela, but there is no reasonable explanation for an invasion of Greenland.
Starmer has already laid the groundwork for a positive working relationship with Trump – but will it be enough?
In The Diplomat, Britons and Americans anger, antagonise and annoy each other.
What the US election result means for the British prime minister and foreign secretary.
Cultural differences and stereotypes between the Englishman and American are at the heart of the film’s humour and play a significant role in the development of their relationship.
The Diplomat suggests that if the ‘special relationship’ is to survive into a world turned topsy turvy by Brexit, Trump and war in Europe, it demands a little TLC.
The image of a post-Brexit Britain with a strong international presence is being lost to the so-called special relationship.
Multiple post-Brexit pressures make the prime minister eager to please.
This was always a marriage of convenience for the UK prime minister. But that doesn’t mean it will be an easy divorce.
The US reaction to the UK’s digital tax proposals is like 1765 all over again.
What Boris Johnson’s victory means for US-UK relations.
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Reader in Modern Political History, Loughborough University
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