Not much love around in the world and it's not all Trump's fault

There is so much division on this planet that it seems to leave little room for love, loyalty, honesty, steadfastness and dignity. Donald Trump's arrival in the White House has definitely contributed to this era of antagonism, but it's not all his fault. Saudi Arabia and Canada are having a hateful spat right now over the arrest in Saudia Arabia of human rights protestors, some of them with Canadian links. The Canadian ambassador in Riyadh has been kicked out. So much for all those promising signs of a new more moderate, more modern Saudi Arabia with the promotion of Mohammed bin Salman to the Crown Prnce slot. Then there's the increasing exasperation, frustration and hatred being shown between the UK and Brussels over Britain's departure from the European Union from March next year. We're rushing headlong into a doom-laden situation of a no-deal Brexit, and who the hell is really doing anything about it? You see, I'm getting angry now! In Washington friends and colleagues are turning against each other to avoid going to prison. Paul Manafort, Trump's former campaign chairman who faces the serious possibility of a prison sentence for alleged fraud and money-laundering, is being betrayed wholesale by his one-time friend and business associate Rick Gates. He is spilling all kinds of nasty stuff in the trial about how Manafort allegedly broke the law. Heaven knows what we're going to hear when Mike Flynn reveals what he has told Robert Mueller, special counsel, about his time as national security adviser to Trump. But it won't be nice. Trump hates anyone who opposes him. Look at his tweet earlier today warning the EU that if they so much as dare do trade deals with Iran he will ban them from any deals with the US. Hate hate hate, ultimatums, warnings. That's what politics is all about now. Perhaps it's the heat that's doing it, but I doubt it. Heat or cold, we all have a future of division and verbal battering, thanks to the way politics is going.