Guest lists matter
It was nice to see so many European and EU leaders at the Coronation. While the right wing commentators were having hissy fits about whether President Biden was snubbing us by not attending, they missed the fact that many of our European friends and neighbours were there in force.
This matters; weddings, funerals and coronations are the ideal places and times for a little behind the scenes diplomacy. Even this government must realise there is an awful lot of oil to be poured on troubled waters.
When better to start than over a glass of fizz after a spectacular event?
Let us hope it happened, but given this bunch it is far more likely they didn’t even see the open goal.
Economics, trade and Brexit, not necessarily in that order but the dog always comes first.