Another week of rock-bottom moments for the drama-addicted Conservative party, who continue to insist to concerned friends and enemies alike that they’re completely fine, are more fun when they do this, and can stop whenever they want.
This week’s ignored wake-up calls include the UK being told “there are limits” by Paul Kagame, the Rwandan president whose limits his critics have found it fatal to cross. Stay with this, but Paul reminds me a lot of those movie stars who say they’d do the acting part for free, but the multimillion-dollar salaries are the price for promotional tours and the loss of privacy. Kagame seems to be on the point of regarding the £240m the UK government has given him so far as nowhere near enough for being asked about their stupid bloody thing every five minutes. He could be literally days from describing it all as “a gilded cage”.
