Difficult times
Keir Starmer politely declines to join a mad war
“It is difficult,” Keir Starmer said, every inch the headmaster explaining why the blocked toilets in the school hall means that the sixth form disco may, regrettably, be cancelled. “Of course it’s difficult.”
He was telling us that he will have to sadly decline Donald Trump’s invitation to join in the enormously successful US war against Iran. Overnight, the president, in a sign of just how well things were going, had issued a series of pleas and threats to the world in general and Nato in particular, demanding minesweepers and the SAS and for Melania to win the Best Picture Oscar.