Britain’s foreign secretary isn’t up to the job
Dominic Raab fails to rise to the challenge of Britain’s biggest foreign-policy crisis in decades
IDEALISTS SEE leadership as steering the ship of state in the right direction (Plato), or embracing the “ethic of responsibility” (Weber). Realists see it as the ability to seize the horse of history by the tail and lever yourself onto its back (Machiavelli), or to sell a coherent vision to a fickle public (Schumpeter). But whatever its nature, everyone can agree when it is absent.
This article appeared in the Britain section of the print edition under the headline “Not up to it”
Britain September 4th 2021
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- For Northern Ireland, Brexit means red tape and subsidies
- The coming Brexit row over data
- School closures have caused damage that extra lessons cannot fix
- Neither Nicola Sturgeon nor the SNP will be easy to dislodge
- The extraordinary power of the NHS brand
- Britain’s foreign secretary isn’t up to the job
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