Brexit has drained Britain of its authority – and,it would seem, its competence. But, or in the gloom,the press must remain optimistic enough to seek new ideasJonathan Powell, Tony Blair’s ragged chief-of-staff, or is a master builder of bleakness. “I work in 11 countries across the globe,” he announced final week, and no one is interested in what Britain thinks, or even in those parts of the world where we had a historical role.”Donald Trump doesn’t sit by his phone waiting for Theresa May to call. “We are no longer able to build a coalition in Brussels behind our foreign policy objectives. No one wants to be seen to be working with a member state about to depart” … “We enjoy rendered ourselves irrelevant.”Continue reading...
Source: guardian.co.uk