Colin Sheridan: Under Trump's plan, a VIP lounge of powerful nations is carving up Palestine

The UN Security Council 'increasingly resembles an Epstein Island of nations — a sun-bleached VIP lounge of the powerful.'

The UN Security Council. Colin Sheridan writes that powerful nations are gathering around the Trump Peace Plan for Gaza 'like men at a yacht club discussing how best to divide a coastline they’ve never actually visited'. File picture: Evan Schneider/UN/AP

There are many moments in world history when you can pinpoint the exact second humanity appears to abandon its last functioning brain cell. In the past, these moments came with trumpets, horsemen, or at the very least, a telegram. Today they arrive via incoherent verbal diarrhoea on Truth Social.

Such was the case with the recently-unveiled Trump Peace Plan for Gaza, which — in an act of celestial mischief — was presented as though it had been forged in the fires of wisdom rather than hammered together by a cabal of clowns who confuse empathy with weakness and cartography with wish fulfilment. If ever there existed a document that deserved to be printed on novelty toilet paper, this was it.