Ever-darkening clouds - More difficult to be optimistic

AT a moment when there are far too many reasons to feel that we have moved from being a post-war world to being a pre-war world Wednesday’s taunting of America by North Korea over their new nuclear capabilities did little to lift a darkening mood. 

Neither did President Trump’s speech in Warsaw yesterday.

Mr Trump warned that the future of the West may be in jeopardy unless we show more resolve.