While the Queen’s MI5 are recruiting Russian bankers in the City of London as high level informants, Britain and the US slide deeper into their own geopolitical ravine. Turns out that Trump knew Assad never launched a ‘Sarin Attack’ on Khan Sheikhoun in Idlib in April – but will it affect US policy going forward?Meanwhile the BBC are out trolling on Twitter apparently looking for ‘trends’. All this and more…

UK Column News co-anchors Brian GerrishMike Robinson joined by Alex Thomson and 21WIRE’s Patrick Henningsen this week’s news round-up.