Well, an experienced career diplomat would have been a good start. (View Post)

I'll add one thing, which I said at the time: I'm blooming glad that I didn't have any responsibility for the decisions that had to be made during Covid. It was like a wartime situatio… (View Post)

Partygate was exceptionally trivial compared to this. Our government gave the top diplomatic post to a man, ahead of all the better-qualified candidates. to a man who has had strong links with a know… (View Post)

I'm a little behind in watching the debate. But Emily Thornberry's a terrible orator, even when reading out her speech from paper. (View Post)

This ignores the way Putin works. Initially, he tries political intervention. Interfere with an enemy's democracy to try to make it elect someone more favourable to Russia. In the case of countr… (View Post)