All the worst elements of the BLOB, the British establishment at its most defeat, are encapsulated in the Foreign Office’s response to the brutal murder by Putin of Alexei Navalny. The statement, made in the House of Commons this afternoon, was so wet that the Meteorological Office ought to have given it a storm name. A brutal tyrant, murdered as if with his own hands, a brave, freedom-loving opposition leader. And the Foreign Office said that it was acting at pace to explore all the options. Even so, Humphrey Appleby of Yes Minister fame would have blanched at writing such inconsequential wor…
