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Spectator Australia · Freddy Gray · Wednesday 22 April 2026

Starmer survives by being too dull to stab

The Spectator reads Trump's half-hearted Starmer shout-out like tea leaves. The real story is a knife that never came out of the drawer.

Trump posts a lukewarm 'Prime Minister Keir Starmer of the United...' and the Spectator treats the ellipsis like Kremlinology. Starmer's safe because Trump can't be bothered, which is the diplomatic equivalent of surviving the pub fight by being too boring to punch. Talleyrand worked rooms. This is just a bloke forgetting whose turn it is to shout.

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