A sloppy editing job is poor form and bad journalism, but let’s stop pretending the BBC in any way was misleading viewers or undermining Trump’s character by creating an untrue narrative.

"Seizing Brexit opportunities to deregulate" was mostly unspecified magic fairy pixie bullshit then, and it's not going to get any more realistic in the hands of a bunch of Reform clowns who don't know how anything works, don't care to learn and disdain anyone that might.

It makes me angry because I know it would have infuriated my father and his mates.

Nothing on this Earth annoyed them as much as people who had not been there trying to muscle in on the action - and appropriate what had gone on. He'd have despised it all and them in particular.

Given that the Americans’ ability to source the rare earth metals they need to manufacture Tomahawks is gone, aren’t they unlike to sell any of them to anyone now?

It's hard to help Americans left behind because so much of US identity is rooted in individualism. The average American conservative holds all three positions at once:

— Virtue signals about supporting US manufacturing
— Against raising the minimum wage
— Buys foreign imports because they're cheap