WATCH. Bush on Bush. “Let us know the blessings of knowing and loving you, a great and noble man.”

At the funeral of the 41st President, George Herbert Walker Bush, he is honoured by the 43rd, George Walker Bush.

Ben Roback: From Presidents 41 to 45 – different backgrounds, different manners, different beliefs, and a different Republican Party

The older Bush was a man of free markets, small government, global engagement…and good manners.

Neil Shastri-Hurst: McCain in America, Mercer here in Britain. It’s time for soldier-statesmen to take the lead.

These men and women offer a solution to a nation and a wider world crying out for leadership. They truly get the concepts of duty, service, and nationhood.

Andrew Mitchell: Why we now need a full inquiry into UK involvement in torture

What Parliament’s Security Committee began – and was frustrated by the Government in doing – judges must now complete.

Roll out the red carpet for Trump

We need America. So we need its President – whether we like him or not. May must not let Macron walk off with Europe’s defence and security leadership.

North Korea. Trump goes where the sainted Obama could never have gone.

One take on the President is that behind the flamboyant tweeting is a conventional actor, who knows full well that jaw tweet jaw is better than war tweet war.

Race to the bottom

May’s audit of ethnic disparities could blight her planned relaunch – and, more importantly, produce policy that sets back social justice rather than takes it forward.

Trump is powerless and May should avoid him

The American President got elected by infuriating the liberals, but is incapable of governing by the same means.

Lord Ashcroft: In Texas, voters aren’t sure if Trump is “right about everything”, “scary”, or both

Plus, Karl Rove discusses the differences between running a business and governing.

Graeme Archer: Murdered gays. Banned Jews. But stick to those anti-Trump protests, comrade – and avert your eyes.

Thank God for great European leaders, like Merkel, whose idiosyncratic approach to border control played such an understated role in last year’s Brexit vote.

Trump has it the wrong way round. Farage should be America’s Ambassador to Britain.

We propose a compromise.

Britain may need to join that European army after all

Trump’s words on NATO and his record to date suggest that we should tear up the rule book.

Iain Dale: How did we all get America’s election so wrong?

In political terms, 2016 is turning out to be every bit as important, in historical terms, as 1968.

How the Conservatives are rebuilding their links with the Republicans – and will work with America’s President-elect

After a long chill, relations between the sister parties are thawing.

Lord Ashcroft: My focus groups in Arizona. “The British completely fail to get how different America is”

“Even though I’m a registered Republican there’s no way I can bring myself up to voting for Trump”.