Keir Starmer’s cowardice has turned silence into policy and submission to Donald Trump into the UK’s default position. Right, so Keir Starmer has just told Britain that it will not judge whether international law was broken when the United States seized Nicolás Maduro, because saying so might upset Donald Trump. That is the line. That is the policy. Britain will apply the law until the law becomes inconvenient, and then it will look away. This hits Starmer first because it is his decision, owned by his office, briefed to journalists with pride. It hits everyone else because it tells the rest of the world exactly when Britain’s judgement switches off. If you are powerful enough, Britain won’t ask whether what you did was legal. If you are not, Britain will lecture you anyway. This is not a bad answer to a hard question. It is a rule being set in p ...