Not Who We Are

Ireland's prime minister has bewailed the transformation of the country which gave the world Magna Carta to protect the privileges of some wealthy thugs, and which founded parliamentary democracy in 1265, preceding the tenth-century Icelandic imitation by a healthy margin, for which Simon de Montfort was rewarded at Evesham by having his various bodily appendages voted away. Leo Varadkar is concerned at the master race's disengagement from international affairs in order to visit the wonders of asset-stripping imperialism upon its own population; although given the long and glorious history of English interventionism in Ireland one might have expected them to find its absence something of a relief. Anyway, Fishy Rishi went through the motions in a bilateral meeting with Varadkar, during which they agreed to disagree until Team Starmer becomes available to tweak things a bit. Afterwards Fishy Rishi toddled off to meet the Italian fascist leader Giorgia Meloni, whose historical perspective he doubtless found more congenial.