There is no "framework of a deal". Not yet.
Donald Trump may claim there is, but that's only because he needed a way to back down from his threats when he realised that he wasn't going to be able to own Greenland.
Trump's climbdown as it happened
"Is this just Trump's off-ramp? No actual framework of a deal yet?" I asked one diplomat at the heart of it all.
The response: "Exactly."
Through the "Trump whisperer", NATO secretary general Mark Rutte, the Danish and Greenlander positions have essentially been reiterated to the American president.
During a face-to-face meeting in Davos, pre-existing commitments in the 1951 US-Denmark treaty were reemphasised and European nations re-committed to increase their own defence of Greenland.
When they did precisely this last week, by literally sending senior military officials to Greenland, Trump interpreted it as a provocation against him and issued the tariff threat.
"I'm so bored of this now…" one European ambassador told me over the weekend, such is the level of weariness over the American president's antics.
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A trio of U-turns
The day in Davos was dizzying even by Trump's standards.
He first U-turned on the implicit threat of military action, then he U-turned on the tariff threat, and then he U-turned on the insistence that he take sovereignty of Greenland. All in the space of a day.
The penny had dropped in his head, it seems. His realised his Greenland ownership plans were more than just unpopular at home (among his own side too). They were seen as self-defeating, undeliverable and frankly mad.
He arrived in Davos to a wave of opposition. For once, Europe was united and firm. It can be incredibly effective when it's both of those things together.
Of course, Team Trump will spin this as another blinding example of the president's "art of the deal" playing out; like they achieved something.
But be in no doubt, that's nonsense. It's half show, half ineptitude, which is deeply damaging to the trans-Atlantic partnership. America under Trump is less reliable by the day. And the damage is lasting.
Where are we now - and what next?
On Greenland, we are now back at the position we were in last week when the Danish and Greenland foreign ministers met Trump's team. They agreed then to form a "working group" to seek a middle ground which addressed Trump's security concerns while not handing over Greenland's sovereignty.
All that Trump really did today was to agree on the American participants in that working group.
So where next? Both sides will look for a middle ground that doesn't hand over Greenland to America. There is plenty of space for ideas and creative thinking - there always was if only the American president was willing to listen.
It's likely that the middle ground will involve some sort of arrangement similar to the UK military bases in Cyprus. New US military bases would be established in uninhabited parts of Greenland on a lease or sale deal. They would become American territory, but sovereignty of Greenland would remain unchanged.
Governments in London, Paris, Berlin, and Copenhagen may well be breathing a sigh of relief that a historic rupture with Washington over the Arctic territory - which is part of the Kingdom of Denmark, a fellow NATO member - appears to have been averted for now.
Trump's climbdown as it happened
But the ease at which the president felt he could publicly humiliate and bully them in the pursuit of his own interests is surely the loudest wake-up call yet for the UK, European allies and Canada to rebuild their own defences instead of overly relying on the US.
In a head-spinning flip, Trump on Wednesday went from threatening hostile action against those who defied his hopes for an Arctic land grab, to posting a harmonious message on social media about forming "the framework of a future deal" on the territory.
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The 'Daddy' strategy
The shift followed a meeting with Mark Rutte, the head of NATO, on the sidelines of a major economic forum in Davos.
Rutte, a former prime minister of the Netherlands who knows the American commander in chief well, grabbed headlines last year because of his fawning language when talking to Trump, even referring to him as "daddy" - a label the US leader seemed to like.
However, this strategic sycophancy - despite being cringey - appears to be paying off.
The secretary general kept Trump onside at a NATO summit last June even though the US president has long criticised his allies for freeloading off American security instead of investing sufficient money in their own armed forces - a fair challenge.
Rutte now appears to have helped navigate some kind of compromise on the US presence in Greenland, though he has no legal authority to negotiate the fate of the territory.
The deal is unclear…
After the Davos meeting, Trump posted on his Truth Social site that he and the NATO boss "have formed the framework of a future deal with respect to Greenland and, in fact, the entire Arctic region. His solution, if consummated, will be a great one for the United States of America and all NATO nations".
He then scrapped a threat to hit the UK and seven other allies with tariffs from next month.
The finer details of the Greenland plan, which may or may not be accepted by Greenlanders and Denmark, is not yet clear.
…the damage done is not
What is in no doubt, though, is the damage that this rift has already caused to NATO cohesion, prompting many European nations, even the typically uber-loyal UK, to use increasingly strident language when pushing back against Trump's demands.
Tough words are one thing, but for Britain and the rest of Europe to stand a chance of being able to ensure their collective and national interests are protected, going forward, they will need to stop talking about rebuilding their military capabilities and start urgently acting.
Rutte's flattering diplomacy will at best be buying a bit more time for these countries to - in Trump's own words - "step up" and defend themselves.
Such a move will not only make NATO stronger to counter external threats, such as from Russia and China.
It will also cushion allies from whenever Trump next decides to turn on them.
In 1986, Diane Sindall, 21, was raped and murdered by a killer dubbed the "Beast of Birkenhead".
The florist had just finished working a late shift at a pub. It was a part-time job that she had only taken on to make some money ahead of her upcoming wedding.
But on her way home, Diane's blue Fiat minivan ran out of petrol. She got out and started to walk.
Then, she was raped and savagely beaten to death. Her body was found in an alleyway the next day.
For decades, investigators from Merseyside Police thought they had caught her killer: a local man called Peter Sullivan, then aged 30.
Mr Sullivan had always maintained his innocence.
But last year, Mr Sullivan, now 68, was released after new tests showed his DNA was not present in semen samples collected at the scene.
By the point that his conviction was overturned, Mr Sullivan had spent 38 years in prison.
It is the longest miscarriage of justice in UK history.
Why there's renewed hope of a breakthrough
Now, Merseyside Police are searching once more for the person who killed Diane and working with Crimestoppers to offer a £20,000 reward for any information that would lead to an arrest and conviction.
"Back in 1986, a sample was recovered from Diane at the crime scene," explains Detective Superintendent Rachel Wilson from Merseyside Police.
"Now we've got the benefit of the enhancements in the DNA work, and we've identified a profile of a man from that sample."
DSI Wilson says this has become the "key line of inquiry" for the force.
"We need to identify who this DNA profile belongs to," she says.
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Of course, after nearly 40 years, police admit Diane's killer may be dead.
But officers say they remain "optimistic" they can identify her killer and bring justice for Diane's family after so many years.
New research shows the proportion of people taking ADHD drugs has tripled over the past decade, increasing from 0.12% in 2010 to 0.39% in 2023.
The increase was most striking among people over 25, rising from just 0.01% in 2010 to around 0.2% in 2023.
Academics from the University of Oxford said this amounts to more than a 20-fold increase among women and a 15-fold rise among men in this age group.
Researchers analysed ADHD prescription rates in Belgium, Germany, the Netherlands, Spain, and the UK - using data from nearly 200,000 people, including more than 31,000 in the UK.
The authors wrote in The Lancet journal: "We observed a dramatic rise in ADHD medication use among adults, especially among females.
"Among adults aged over 18, there was a two to 15-fold increase in prevalence of use during the study period, with the most pronounced increases observed in females, especially in the UK.
"The increase in both prevalence and incidence use among adults reflects the increased awareness of adult ADHD, especially among females."
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The authors also found that in the UK and Spain, over 70% of people over 25 had previously used antidepressants.
The researchers said the UK recorded the largest relative rise among the countries examined, with growth also seen among children aged three to 11 and teenagers.
Methylphenidate - sold under brand names including Ritalin, Concerta, Delmosart, Equasym and Medikinet - was the most widely prescribed ADHD medication across all five countries.
The researchers also highlighted a worldwide shortage of ADHD meds since September 2023, noting that better insight into prescribing trends could help forecast demand, enable faster responses, and reduce the risk of shortages.
Health Secretary Wes Streeting said last December he had commissioned an independent review into the growing demand for mental health, ADHD and autism services, which will examine diagnosis rates and the support available to patients.
"They have left us in water limbo," organiser Jonathan Hawker told a packed bar of over 100 residents on Wednesday night.
"And that's no way to live in 2026."
It was the first big public meeting led by Dry Wells Action - a newly established community fightback group.
They've had over three years of disrupted water supplies in Kent and East Sussex that have come to a head this winter.
Although most people are now reconnected, lengthy outages in December and January mean residents fear further water cuts are just inevitable.
They did invite South East Water (SEW) to come along, but they failed to send anyone.
"Their communications are just tragic," one businessman noted, "but you all know that!"
"It's very disappointing SEW didn't send a representative here to speak to the community - that's the least they could have done," Syed Ahmed said.
Mr Ahmed is a consultant hip surgeon who told the meeting he'd had to cancel NHS clinics because his children's schools had to close with hardly any notice.
"I've had to choose between managing my kids and clinical services - and I have had to cancel clinics. The impact is absolutely horrendous.
"It's impacted people who are suffering in pain - who have had appointments rescheduled or surgeries rescheduled - I'm hoping it hasn't cost lives - but we will find out soon."
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People want answers, transparency, and accountability - again they called for the chief executive of SEW to resign.
The last they heard from under-fire boss David Hinton, who has a basic annual salary of £400,000, was when he was obliged to appear before MPs earlier this month.
Much to the irritation of his customers, he rated his company's performance 8/10 for incident response and 6/10 for communications.
'COVID vibes'
At Skinner's Academy in Tunbridge Wells the principal, Hannah Knowles, told Sky News her rating would be zero "or in minus numbers".
She has spent £6,000 to bring several blocks of portable toilets onto the school site so they can assure students that their mock exams will go ahead this week.
While we were filming, messages came through of another potential water cut. Ms Knowles quickly went to check the taps in one part of the school.
"This is just what I do now - check the water," she said.
"There are COVID vibes around needing to adapt quickly and being resilient."
Ms Knowles estimates the total cost in contingency measures and lost measures is £20,000.
"If SEW have got the audacity to not provide us that money back they are literally taking money from young people," she said.
'We haven't been given a solution'
Compensation has been promised to residential customers, but she is expecting SEW to make it difficult for her.
Year 13 student Doris Waugh told Sky News: "They are treating us a little bit like idiots, they will throw technical language in our faces and tell us about the problems, but we haven't been given a single solution."
It's deeper than frustration; this kind of water pressure has created a drumbeat for change in this affluent corner of Kent.
'It's going to get worse'
One of the founder members of the Dry Wells campaign group, Jo Dobson, told Sky News: "It is going to get worse, it is not just investing in the infrastructure, it needs a complete overhaul.
"I do think if we can effect the first change here in Kent and Tunbridge Wells the rest of the country can follow suit."
While the government has outlined plans for a new regulator and tougher checks on water companies, the calls for more radical change, including taking water companies back into public ownership, are growing louder - not least in and around Tunbridge Wells.
Sky News has approached SEW for an interview.




