Henry Newman: A Brexit deal isn’t certain, but it’s within reach – and it could still make it through Parliament

The process is hard and risky, but it still seems unlikely that the Labour Party would really torpedo an agreement in the last resort.

Benedict Rogers: Hunt has made a strong start in placing values at the heart of British foreign policy

From Hong Kong to Yemen to Burma the Foreign Secretary is making positive steps. There is still more to do, however.

Garvan Walshe: How Trump came to deal with Kim Jong Un – the inside story

Our columnist goes behind the scenes in the White House, as fly on the wall of the Oval Office.

WATCH: Jong-Un’s face – as Trump tells photographers that both men want to look “nice and handsome and thin”

“Very nice…getting a good picture, everybody?…thank you,” the American President concludes.

WATCH: That Trump & Jong-Un handshake

A few small steps for both men, a giant leap for nuclear disarmament and international engagement?

Trump – a mad dog strategy, or just a mad dog?

The United States’ traditional allies are wondering if the President’s erratic and aggressive behaviour is a ploy or his true nature.

Ben Roback: On Iran, Trump again displays the art of breaking deals

The President is often taken literally but not seriously, whereas he should be taken seriously but not literally.

WATCH: The South Korean and North Korean presidents shake hands in the demilitarised zone

They meet in no man’s land. The two countries are still technically at war. It is the most surprising political meeting of modern times.

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.

The Syrian horror. No easy answers.

Public opinion would back missile strikes against Assad, and arming a credible opposition, were there to be one. But not more western boots on the ground.

Lord Ashcroft: “We didn’t elect him to be a saint, we elected him to be a leader.” My latest American focus groups.

We found that those who had voted enthusiastically for Trump were still on board, and were prepared to overlook his private conduct, however regrettable they found it.

Watch Trump on Iran

We are so preoccupied with Brexit and Putin that we may have missed the significance of the President’s latest sacking-and-replacement.

Mark Francois: States like Russia now pose the primary threat to the UK – we must strengthen our defences accordingly

The erroneous assumption that hostile states were no longer relevant has rightly been abandoned. Now our Armed Forces need the resources to meet the challenge.

Why the Americans make such rotten imperialists

Amy Chua says they are blind to the decisive importance of tribal politics – an obliviousness which extends to America itself, and prepared the way for Trump.

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.