The fact that the Foreign Secretary would write a regular Substack was always a strange notion. Lammy seemed to believe he would be able to explain how he was reaching “progressive ends” with “realist means”…
Lammy did an introductory post back in September and then a bit on his major “Kew Gardens” speech which of course no one can remember. He did manage to cause a diplomatic incident by praising bloody campaign to reclaim the territory of Nagorno-Karabakh as a “liberation.” It is now exactly 90 days – three months – since Lammy last penned a piece for the benefit of his dozens of readers. He may wish to go to pixel with “explorations” of some of his more contentious foreign policy decisions in recent months – the Chagos deal springs to mind. That said – blogging is not for the weak…
Former leader of the SNP in Westminster Ian Blackford told Times Radio why he believes Nicola Sturgeon’s claim that she spent no time in the kitchen and therefore didn’t see any of her husband’s purchases:
“She doesn’t have a passion for cooking.”