The Fugitive

I don’t normally watch daytime TV, it so offends my work ethic. But today I couldn’t resist the latest episode of the Starmer Sinks Without Trace Show on the Parliament channel, a rather tedious show it has to be said with one episode after another competing with the original 1960s series of The Fugitive for endless escarpments into unresolved denouements. As opposed to gripping cliff edges. Starmer is reprising yet again his most practiced defence of his inaction, which is to say the issue (whatever it is) ‘didn’t cross my desk.’ As some have pointed out he never seems capable of asking why? In the Mandelson case, Starmer in his statement to the House of Commons today repeated his mantra, and answered every question by repeating a well rehearsed line which came down to ‘I’ve just explained all that’ which of course bore no resemblance to what he actually explained, which egregiously didn’t explain any of the why Mandy was ’cleared’ by the top civil servant(s) in the Foreign Office. Starmer only as it were wanted to chronicle the implements of the murder, not the motive. I believe for my part the motive could be traced back to Morgan McSweeney, one of the first to get shoved out of the No.10 door thanks to this sordid affair. Surely if Starmer thinks this is over he is a bigger fool than he takes the rest of us for. I hope journalists will pursue their five ’Ws’ with vigour: Who What Where When and most importantly WHY?