Prime Millennial

Sure, there is still King Charles, the only retiree whose first full time job of his life isn't at McDonald's or Walmart or whatever but Commander in Chief of the Royal Armed Forces. I bet the brits woke up to nightmares of buzzbombs for the few weeks the empire was in the trusty hands of Elizabeth Truss and King Charles, neither of whom earned their office so much as they inherited it upon the death of its previous holder (figuratively speaking in the case of Truss who was the beneficiary of Boris Johnson's slow motion political harikiri).

But now we have at least one leader who is the first to represent the future of the British empire, 42 year old Rishi Sunak, the first Millennial leader of any G8 nation. As far as I am concerned, it comes not a moment too soon, as the world sits at the precipice of 'who fucking knows what' there should be at least one person at the table representing those of us who plan/hope to be alive for the next 50 years.

The question that hangs over Sunak going into the G20 is whether or not his counterparts will treat him like he will be back next year.

You can be certain Wang Huning has been hanging quotes like this on the walls of Zhongnanhai for his new PSC colleagues like Li Qiang, Cai Qi and Ding Xuexiang. I think Prime Millennial Sunak will do better than carry his own weight; I believe he can provide heavy intellectual firepower to his octogenarian counterpart from America when the GOP Congress tries to destroy him and his family come next January while he is fighting Putin in Europe and Xi in Asia.

The West desperately needs more young, vibrant and confident leaders like Rishi Sunak if we are to survive the great geopolitical and ideological struggle that may have already begun.