Why Britain Is Saying No to Trump’s Iran War | The David Frum Show
March 18, 2026
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as posted by the channelOn this week’s episode of “The David Frum Show,” The Atlantic’s David Frum opens with his thoughts on President Trump’s dangerous disregarding of Congress’s powers of war-making and peacemaking. David argues that though Republicans have enabled the President’s dark impulses, Democrats in congress also seem happy to turn a blind eye to the Trump administration’s actions in Iran. This, David argues, jeopardizes the restraints put on the president in a constitutional government.
Then, David is joined by Alastair Campbell, a writer and co-host of “The Rest Is Politics,” to discuss how President Trump has poisoned the “special relationship” between the United States and Great Britain. Frum and Campbell analyze how Trump’s impulsive war in Iran has put further strain on the alliance and how Trump’s relationship with Prime Minister Starmer differs from President Bush’s relationship with Tony Blair at the outset of the war in Iraq.
Finally, David ends the show with a discussion of the German novel “The Director,” by Daniel Kehlmann. David explores how the novel offers a poignant portrayal of moral compromise in Nazi Germany.
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