Temporarily Unpopular

In the crusading Trumpsterite spirit of making a bad situation worse, the Truss administration has been making noises about moving the British embassy in Israel to Jerusalem. Although natural enough for a third-rate colonial power in thrall to religious mania and basking in a long history of Muslim-baiting and Arab-bombing, the idea is a philozionism too far to suit the opposition parties: a spokesbeing proclaimed that even Team Starmer has, for the present, no plans to support the move openly. In the Blairite tradition of dismantling Thatcherite dogma, and the Liberal Democrat tradition of opposing war crimes until they actually take place, reversing the move once it has been accomplished would presumably be a different matter altogether.