Good morning. “It is hard to think of a time when there has been so much danger and insecurity and instability in the world,” the UK’s foreign secretary David Cameron said yesterday. “The lights are absolutely flashing red, as it were, on the global dashboard.”
Cameron was referring, above all, to the regional instability unleashed by the war in Gaza. On Thursday, the UK and US launched strikes on more than 60 targets in Yemen, with the aim of degrading the Houthi militia’s ability to hit cargo ships in the Red Sea. Rishi Sunak will address MPs about the strikes today; Joe Biden has previously been cautious of any step that might trigger an unpredictable military response, and his secretary of state Antony Blinken said on Thursday, “I don’t think the conflict is escalating.” But like Cameron, he acknowledged that “there are lots of danger points”.
