Not the Way We Do Things

While Team Starmer continues to make uncompromising moral noises over the ongoing final solution to the Palestinian problem, the Dutch foreign minster has merely resigned over his government's refusal to impose sanctions against the Righteous State. In the Netherlands as in the United Kingdom, an uneasy coalition of centre-right and hard-right has formed a caretaker administration until the far right is ready to resume its rightful place; but the stakes for the Dutch foreign minister and his colleagues are arguably somewhat lower, as their term is only until October and not until 2029. Meanwhile the shade of Anne Frank is no doubt relieved that her modern counterparts in the Netanyahoo administration have been spared further inconvenience.