Three cheers for the Theresa May doctrine | Simon Jenkins

The PM’s foreign policy speech in the US is an outbreak of common sense. But she and Donald Trump must also articulate a coherent alternative to belligerence

Even the darkest clouds can have silver linings. Theresa May’s words on landing yesterday in America could not be clearer: “The days of Britain and America intervening in sovereign countries in an attempt to remake the world in our own image are over.”

True, May felt obliged to incant the fake chumminess of all British prime ministers sett...