Is Britain trapped by the "special relationship"?

Leaks from a national security council meeting suggest cabinet ministers challenged the assumption that Trump should have the automatic right to access British military bases. The grown up discussion was portrayed by some newspapers as a sign of weakness, which says more about those newspapers than Starmer and his ministers. Isn’t the Iran crisis showing that the ‘special relationship’ is largely a humiliating one for Britain and needs to be challenged more fundamentally once the current crisis is in some way resolved? If resolution is possible… To join the never-ending debate in the Rock & Roll Politics co-operative email steveric14@icloud.com . Rock & Roll Politics is live at the Cambridge Literary Festival on Saturday April 25th . Rock & Roll Politics is live at Kings Place on May 11 for post election special .

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Is Britain trapped by the "special relationship"? is an episode from Steve Richards presents the Rock N Roll Politics podcast by Podmasters.

This episode is 43:40 long.

This episode was published on Mar 10, 2026.

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