In a troubled world, we still have a true friend in Donald Trump – EXPRESS COMMENT
AT a snowy mountain retreat the handshake is warm and the words are red hot. When President Trump met Theresa May in Davos yesterday, it was obvious that the special relationship between our countries remains very special indeed.
"We're very much joined at the hip," the President told the Prime Minister. "We're on the same wavelength I think in every respect.
“We have the same ideas, the same ideals and there's nothing that would happen to you that we won't be there to fight for you."
Mark those words well, for in a troubled world they are our strongest safeguard. But it is not just in military terms that the Americans are our greatest allies.
Earlier the United States confirmed it will negotiate an "attractive" trade deal the moment we leave the EU.
The puffed-up Mayor of London Sadiq Khan may kid himself he's speaking for Britain when he gloats over President Trump's cancelled visit to our country but he does not.
He speaks only for those on the Left who put political posturing above security and prosperity.
Long may the strongest friendship in the world continue. We are proud to stand shoulder to shoulder with our American allies.
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Success begins at home
Billions have been spent on new school buildings but a damning statistic shows that one secondary school in eight is still falling below the minimum educational standard.
To put that in stark context it means 260,783 children are being taught in an under-performing secondary school.
Eager to deflect attention from the stunning under-achievement laid bare by these figures, the Department for Education blames "technical changes" to the points system that is being used by government statisticians.
So why is it the results show that children from Chinese and Indian families outperform by far their white British classmates? Another statistical quirk or possibly an indicator that some parents may take education more seriously than others?
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Boris Johnson’s generation game
The plots of TV's forensic crime series Silent Witness have never produced anything quite as bizarre as this.
DNA tests on a 16th-century mummified body reveal that the corpse is in fact Boris Johnson's great-great-great-greatgreat-great-great-grandmother.
Truth is indeed stranger than fiction.