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S itting at the back of the public gallery watching Olly Robbins give his evidence to the foreign affairs select committee hearing on Tuesday felt horribly like the summer of 2022 all over again. The similarities are not lost on anyone like me who has witnessed all of this from relatively close quarters. In Starmer’s ever-lengthening list of leadership flaws is his willingness to cheerfully abandon his people at the most dangerous time in the battle, for no other reason than the protection of his own reputation.
You can’t kill something that is already dead. New details about Peter Mandelson’s disastrous appointment as Britain’s ambassador to Washington can trigger more paroxysms of outrage in Westminster. They can.
Around the time of Peter Mandelson’s appointment as the UK’s ambassador to Washington in late 2024, Nigel Farage, our possible next prime minister, said that while he “might disagree with Mandelson on his.
I had Keir Starmer down as a non-ideological technocratic centrist dad the moment I first clocked him, with a tin ear for both simple human interaction and the darker subtleties of the political arts. That said, Starmer couldn’t be blamed for taking comfort wherever he can, and there are worse places than China to be the object of a little adulation. Add to that our son’s phone’s initial translation of the Chinese characters representing Starmer’s transliterated name on the sign in Kunming: “British Prime Minister Star Beast”.
