It’s now been a month since David Lammy last wrote a post for his “Progressive Realism” Substack after he produced two long reads in three days. He started it up in September to “explore” how to reach “progressive ends” with “realist means”…

So far the blog has only managed to achieve some typos like “I am the first Black Britain to go to Harvard Law School” and triggering a diplomatic incident. Lammy praised Azerbaijan’s bloody campaign to reclaim the territory of Nagorno-Karabakh as a “liberation.” Forcing the FCDO to clarify that UK policy – to “urge meaningful dialogue” – had not changed as a result…

Lammy has done a lot to put his mark on foreign policy in a month – thawing relations with China, giving away the Chagos Islands, and “forging a closer relationship” with the EU. Is he not keen to explain himself on his personal blog?