Trump badly needs a way out of this war. Right now, thatâs everyoneâs problem | Gaby Hinsliff
The looming shortage of medicines and fertiliser is only going to get worse with the latest US blockade. Europe and the UK need to step up diplomatically For weeks now, that has been Europeâs increasingly confident position on the conflict in Iran: that it didnât ask for this ill-judged fight, can hardly be expected to join in when it has no idea what war crimes Donald Trump might be contemplating next, and certainly isnât obliged to extricate him from his own wilfully deep hole. For Keir Starmer in particular, staying out of the war and letting slip his exasperation has been that rarest of prizes: a chance to do what the Labour party desperately wants to do, but which also happens to be both the right thing and the popular one. However, the trouble with ânot our war, not our problemâ is that, as of this weekend, only half of it remains true. Itâs still not our war: Downing Street has ruled out sending warships to join Trumpâs new naval blockade of Iran, which aims to play the Iranians at their own game by preventing them shipping their own oil out to market unless they also allow free passage through the strait of Hormuz to everyone else. But the presidentâs decisi
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