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THE SUN SAYS
Donald Trump’s war on the International Criminal Court is a reckoning long overdue
We hope Trump’s sanctions force the ICC to examine its own radical politicisation
Clown courts
IT may horrify polite North London dinner parties but Donald Trump’s war on the International Criminal Court is a reckoning long overdue.
Its credibility was already shot before it blew it up with its fact-mangling assault on Israel and arrest warrant for PM Benjamin Netanyahu over “war crimes”.
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These included the alleged “starvation” of Gaza’s people despite it being obvious aid is routinely stolen by Hamas.
The ICC failure to recognise Israel as a democratic nation justifiably defending itself against racist terrorists still holding Jewish hostages betrayed a repugnant bias obliterating any legitimacy it had.
Even Joe Biden called it “outrageous”.
We hope Trump’s sanctions force the ICC to examine its own radical politicisation.
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We won’t hold our breath.
And the same flaws are evident at the International Court of Justice too.
The ICJ has no power over the UK in disputes with Commonwealth nations like Mauritius.
And its edict that Mauritius should be given our Chagos Islands despite having no valid claim to them is straightforwardly ludicrous.
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But our Government, devoted to both the ICC and ICJ, is slavishly following this non-binding advice and intends to spend up to £18billion surrendering this strategically vital territory.
Labour’s nonsense excuses about threats to national security and the “electromagnetic spectrum” if we don’t are designed to conceal an appalling reality:
US military 'to look at all options' in Trump's plan to transform Gaza into 'Middle East Riviera,' Defense Sec vows
That left-liberal human rights lawyers here and in Mauritius want YOU to fund their juvenile, Britain-hating, global virtue-signalling to the tune of billions.
Like the ICC and ICJ, that is another indefensible disgrace.
Smashing job
REMEMBER Labour’s supposedly detailed plan to stop the boats?
“Smashing the gangs”. “More border police”. “Clearing the asylum backlog”.
The result so far: A surge in numbers, with a record 1,489 migrants crossing the Channel illegally since January 1.
The Government’s plan was always fatally flawed — because it scrapped the Rwanda scheme before it could launch, recoiling even at the idea of a deterrent.
Whether through incompetence or wilful ideological blindness, it entirely misread the problem. So here we are:
A crisis exposing the impotence of successive Governments goes on . . . with a skint nation already in economic trouble stuck with a bill for billions.
Good DOGE
BRUTAL though it looks, Elon Musk’s DOGE department at the White House looks set to save US taxpayers a fortune.
Vast, wasteful projects at home and abroad are being unsentimentally torched.
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Just imagine the horrors we’d unearth if Britain did the same.
When can we get a DOGE?
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