The Danger of Starmer’s Conservatism

The challenge of political leadership, Henry Kissinger observed, is that all the easy decisions have been taken by someone else, leaving only the most difficult and agonising choices for those at the very top. The most difficult issues of all, he wrote, are those “whose necessity you cannot prove when the decisions are made” and, therefore, can only be judged later on  — by which point it is too late to change course.