At the United Nations this week, newly installed UK Prime Minister Keir Burnham met Donald Trump for the first time, and the encounter revealed the quiet tensions that govern alliances between nations. The contested Chagos Islands deal — Britain's agreement to return the archipelago's sovereignty to Mauritius — became the fault line, with Trump calling it 'terrible' and Burnham agreeing to a 'review.' Whether that concession represents diplomatic wisdom or political retreat depends entirely on who is telling the story, and the British press told it both ways at once.