Bleakly funny thing about present day British politics is that Keir Starmer has achieved the Blairite dream of representing *all* working people, but this Labour government hates it, because they would rather represent the 'right sort' of working person.

Less spicy: international law concerns all sorts of stuff that doesn't have to do with war, e.g. sea routes, banking, trade, postal services.

It's real!

One of things I noticed in DC that fascinated me is that many Americans don't hear Geordie, it just sounds like "English" to them