Before Richard Drax gets too carried away with applauding Donald Trump for his meeting with Kim Jong Un (Friday column), let’s just remember that two days before Trump was saluting and lavishing praise on this tin-pot dictator, the US President was criticising and undermining his G6 allies, including the UK, and supporting the return to the group of Russia, which recently committed a chemical attack on us. 

Ok, perhaps the meeting was a good thing overall, but taking the Korean peninsular to the brink of war, and then edging back from the precipice, hardly qualifies Trump as a great peace-maker. 

History will judge, but with Trump’s past record of vanity-led inconsistency, my hopes are not high.

Furthermore, Richard Drax seems to have as little grasp of history as he does on current affairs, if he thinks that Ronald Reagan was credited with the fall of the Soviet Empire. 

Its fall was almost entirely down to the rise of Perestroika and Glasnost (political restructuring and transparency) under the then Soviet Leader Mikhail Gorbachev.

Mark Gugan
Dorchester