Starmer wants to kneecap our Department of War; Giving Diego Garcia to a nation 1,300 miles away is not how an ally treats us.
500 years ago—514 to be exact—Pedro Mascarenhas, a Portuguese explorer looking for a better route to India and China, encountered a long and narrow uninhabited island in the Indian Ocean. He named it Dom Garcia in honor of the man who financed the exploration. That was in 1512. The island was re-discovered in 1544 by …