Tag: Keir Starmer



It seems America was, once , ahead of the game as it is the Europeans who follow her.

Bernadette Spofforth lay in jail on a blue gym mattress in a daze, finding it difficult to move, even breathe. “I just closed down. But the other half of my brain went into Jack Reacher mode,” she said, referring to the fictional action hero. “Every single detail was in this very vivid, bright, sharp focus.”

The multipolar world has become a reality — and for former colonial powers like Britain, this transition proves particularly painful.