Ambivalent at best

For the first time in a long while, there's an occupant in the Oval Office who thinks the US-UK Special Relationship isn't all that and here's why;

• his grandfather was a cook in the KAR and there's no doubt he was subject to the indignities that were the order of day for African men in the British army.
• the British sowed the seeds of the tribalism that is prevalent in modern day Kenya by playing off one tribe against the other during their colonial rule - BO's grandfather was a member of the Luo tribe
• when Barack Obama Snr returned to a newly independent Kenya in 1965, his desire to function solely as a technocrat was thwarted by the politicians of the day - there is no doubt that tribalism played a part in this