Derrick Wyatt's Law and Policy Blog
Derrick Wyatt KC, retired academic and lawyer
EU law, international law, constitutional law
Politics
Writes on law and policy at https://derrickwyatt.substack.co
- www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/... Trump backs Chagos deal but says Diego Garcia base must never be undermined by "fake claims or environmental nonsense." (FYI - under the deal Mauritius retains sovereignty over environmental issues BUT Mauritius can only exercise under conditions agreed with the UK)
- www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/... Trump looking to back Starmer's Chagos Island deal - again (The deal has teeth most opponents don't mention. Such as a UK veto on foreign security forces including civilians throughout the whole Chagos Archipelago plus UK/US rights to patrol the entire area)
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- The Chagossians are reported to have offered to name "Eagle" Island in the Archipelago after Trump. Amuses me because in a satirical piece I wrote a year ago I portrayed Trump as thinking about renaming Diego Garcia as Trump Island. derrickwyatt.substack.com/p/memo-to-do...
- Starmer’s Chagos treaty secures Diego Garcia and the whole Archipelago Nuclear armed aircraft could fly from Diego Garcia, which would be surrounded by its own seaspace and airspace, and the UK could exclude foreign forces and deal with emergent threats throughout the Archipelago Blog soon
- www.theguardian.com/world/2026/f... A customs union with the UK would be good for the EU, because it would allow the EU to offer the UK market tariff-free to potential EU trading partners But the EU could not offer the UK tariff-free access to the markets of those partners A bad option for the UK
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- Which hog? If you know of a voting system which would provide as proportionate an outcome as the one I discuss, please let me know.
- derrickwyatt.substack.com/p/a-trump-ta... A Trump takeover of the Chagos Islands is always a possibility Starmer’s Chagos deal safeguards US interests – even on nuclear weapons – but if Trump objects the deal has to stay on hold writes @blogwyatt.bsky.social
- might interest @campolis.bsky.social
- moderndiplomacy.eu/2026/02/02/n... Trump still pressuring Denmark for ownership and control of Greenland The US has isolated Denmark and Greenland in talks which should include NATO countries with High North responsibilities to seek a solution within the framework of NATO defence plans
- Not quite, Senator Under the new deal the UK could patrol at sea and in the air throughout the Chagos Islands, and ban and stop Chinese spy boats anywhere in the Chagos Islands, Chagos is more vulnerable to Chinese spying under the status quo because China does not recognise UK sovereignty anway
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- Sorry to trouble you, but it would really help to repost the actual post, rather than my post flagging it up to you As you see I am continuing with a virtually lone campaign to provide a truth balanced explanation of the Chagos background and proposed future
