Britain stands at a threshold familiar to nations that have long balanced principle against alliance — the moment when symbolic gesture must either deepen into structural commitment or reveal itself as performance. Foreign Secretary Ed Miliband's planned ban on trade with Israeli settlements, welcomed yet found wanting by UN Special Rapporteur Francesca Albanese, arrives as the International Court of Justice's 2024 advisory opinion has already drawn the legal map; the question now is whether London will follow it or fold it away. The measure will be judged not by its announcement but by what s