Within days of Burnham’s unchallenged ascension, Trump had reopened the European airbridge pouring high explosives onto civilian targets in Iran. The targeted destruction of civilian infrastructure is called a war crime, but only when committed by Russia in Ukraine. The horrors in Ukraine, Iran, Yemen, Sudan and Gaza are not only buffeting against us, as we hear in broadcasts and articles about the ‘challenges’ faced by the PM. The new age of war is being authored here in the plush arms fair addressed by the prime minister, and the shipyards, weapons factories and airports of Scotland. Above all else, the meaning of the new British government is expressed in its lurch towards the new war economy.