Starmer has become trapped in a confused world of his own making. He’s accepted an interpretation of international law which aids dictators over democracies. He’s alienating our closest ally whilst trying to appease Labour’s electoral base as well as its MPs.
With so much else in policymakers’ in-trays, allied with voters’ disquiet over immigration, it is surely inevitable that genuine refugees lose out.
First, Islamist extremism will use woke like a human shield. Then, once it has exhausted its purpose, it will cast aside, like that LGBT flag last Saturday.
Exiling her is a temporary fix but solves nothing.
There is a big difference between accepting that the UK has a responsibility to see she faces justice and arguing that she “needs saving”.
Traditional secular nationalist-driven Palestinian terrorism has been taking on a more religiously motivated dimension in recent years.
Whatever the outcome of Sue Gray’s investigation, we must draw a line under the questions being faced by the Government.
Those who want to project force in the Pacific must explain how it would be consistent with maintaining our strength at home and nearer abroad.
It is a litany of uncomfortable and inconvenient truths. Obsessing over these does little to spur progress.
My great fear is that isolationism on the left and right could take root. And not all interventions have been disastrous – let alone about imposing our values.
Britain has a moral responsibility to do something in Libya, having played a key role in creating the dangerous vacuum that is swallowing the country today.
Perhaps the answer is bound up with China – and our inability to focus on more than a single problem at once.
There are many Arab Muslims living in peace in Israel. There are also Arab jews living in peace in Bahrain and the UAE. This is not a war between Jews and Muslims.