BRITAIN'S participation in the weekend's illegal bombing raids over Syria was dangerous and wrong.

Theresa May's desperation to show Donald Trump she is every bit as obsequious a sidekick as French President Emmanuel Macron has trumped considerations of legality, democratic accountability, evidence assessment or national security.

Her speech to the nation supposedly justifying this blitz of a country which has never threatened to attack us was riddled with misinformation and sleights of hand.