Deranged BBC

WE know Brexit has tipped the BBC into utter derangement.

But presenter Mishal Husain comparing Britain’s determination to fix the flawed Northern Ireland Protocol with Russian war crimes is absurd and grotesque.

Night after night, the corporation covers the horrors committed by Vladimir Putin’s army in Ukraine. What, by contrast, has Boris Johnson done wrong? To protect the province’s fragile peace, he has simply proposed minor tweaks to the Brexit withdrawal deal struck with the EU.

Ending Brussels’ vindictively officious policing of UK goods entering Northern Ireland would cool sectarian tensions and, hopefully, persuade Unionists – for whom the protocol is toxic – to return to Stormont.

Caterwauling Remainers claim, wrongly, this breaches international law. In their eyes, Britain is now a pariah equal to Russia.

The reality is, Brussels intransigently refuses to renegotiate because it has launched a power- grab for Northern Ireland. In the face of such petulance, Boris is quite right to act unilaterally.