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Trump’s rambling speech at Davos seems to have caused a shifting of the tectonic plates in British politics.

Allister Heath, the Editor of the Sunday Telegraph, is somewhere on the hard to far right political spectrum. However in a comment piece for the Telegraph (22nd Jan) he makes it clear that no right-wing or fascist political leader can now back Trump. It is a significant fissure, although Enoch Powell was also strongly anti-American in an earlier period.

Nigel Farage’s byline regularly appears in the Telegraph (as he made clear earlier in the week he doesnt write the articles) and on Wednesday Farage was to be found speaking at the ‘US House’ at Davos. He backed Tump’s plans to invade Greenland and levy tariffs on Europe. Unfortunately for Farage a few hours later Trump did his usual TACO.

Allister Heath, Daily Telegraph 22nd January 2026

Defcon 3, here we come. The world is a powder keg, and Donald Trump is flamethrower-waving like a famished pyromaniac. He desperately desires Greenland, and will incinerate any relationship, however special, that stands in the way of his imperial delirium.

His speech at Davos was incendiary, a torching of the West by the supposed leader of the free world. The blackmailer-in-chief now claims he won’t use force to seize Greenland, but if America’s “immediate negotiations” are underpinned by the kind of techniques that would have made a New York mobster proud, what difference will it make?

His threat to tariff Britain, his grotesque bullying, have obliterated any residual goodwill towards Trump among the Right-leaning British public, even when they agree with him on Chagos, net zero or his scathing assessment of Europe. No Western conservative leader, from Jordan Bardella to Giorgia Meloni to Nigel Farage or Kemi Badenoch can afford not to condemn him.

There is a real danger that Trump’s imperialistic overreach could trigger a catastrophic chain reaction. A concerted boycott of US treasury bonds, as some are demanding, would destroy not just America but the European and world economy.