That didn’t take long. It’s less than four hours since America’s septuagenarian president landed in Scotland and already he appears to have fallen asleep at the summit. Joe Biden was spotted shutting his eyes during one of the many, many speeches this afternoon, not opening them again until an awkward apparatchik ran over to disturb him. In fairness to the aged Democrat, sleep might have seemed like the most diplomatic option when faced with Brian Cox, David Attenborough and Prince Charles producing various outpourings of hot air in their efforts to curb global warming.
Still, at least Biden’s COP is still going better than Justin Welby’s. The Archbishop of Canterbury today told the BBC that leaders will be ‘cursed’ if they don’t reach an agreement in the next fortnight, suggesting to Laura Kuenssberg that a failure to act would be possibly more grave than ignoring warnings about the Nazis in the 1930s.
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