It is possible to get impatient with our leaders as we listen to them in the House of Commons. Do they really have what it takes to deal with this new world we are living in?
The PM is in China. “Britain is back on the world stage!’ he declares, and his British listeners hide behind their hands in embarrassment. We’re back on the world stage as a spear-carrying dwarf called on for comic relief.
Lord Khan in the Telegraph: “I hope, and I say this in a non-pompous way, that the public service I do will bring rewards in this world and the hereafter,” he says. “I’m hoping the work I do is earning me Brownie points.”
