{"id":35584,"date":"2021-08-20T20:35:32","date_gmt":"2021-08-20T11:35:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/commentisfree\/2021\/aug\/20\/dominic-raab-foreign-secretary-global-britain"},"modified":"2021-08-20T20:35:32","modified_gmt":"2021-08-20T11:35:32","slug":"dominic-raab-the-foreign-secretary-who-phones-it-in-marina-hyde","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=35584","title":{"rendered":"Dominic Raab \u2013 the foreign secretary who phones it in | Marina Hyde"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Incompetent, negligent, isolated, increasingly disliked \u2013 Raab may just be the perfect ambassador for \u2018global Britain\u2019<\/p>\n<p>Is it possible to appear muscular while making a phone call? It is certainly the look that furiously committed political man Dominic Raab seems to have gone for, in an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-9909923\/Raab-ropes-Foreign-Office-admit-NO-one-rang-call-save-Afghan-translators-lives.html\">official picture<\/a> released by his department as he attempts to retcon acting like a foreign secretary while Kabul fell.<\/p>\n<p>The photo of oneself on the phone was <a href=\"https:\/\/georgewbush-whitehouse.archives.gov\/president\/\">a favourite of George W Bush<\/a>, though I can never remember seeing one of his that didn\u2019t feel worthy of the caption: \u201cLook Daddy! They let me use a phone!\u201d Still, let\u2019s have a look at Raab\u2019s take on the genre. Grasping his chair with one hand and surrounded by flags, he is leaning so ferociously into the call that he can only have honed his game demanding to know why hotel housekeeping had failed to make his towel into a swan that morning. \u201cI couldn\u2019t give a toss that you were busy, and no, a turtle was not \u2018fine\u2019! You can\u2019t just phone in any quarter-arsed terrycloth origami and claim to be offering a five-star guest experience. I think you should consider your position. [PAUSE] I\u2019m so sorry, Secretary Blinken. I just reflexively dialled 1.\u201d<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/commentisfree\/2021\/aug\/20\/dominic-raab-foreign-secretary-global-britain\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Incompetent, negligent, isolated, increasingly disliked \u2013 Raab may just be the perfect ambassador for \u2018global Britain\u2019Is it possible to appear muscular while making a phone call? It is certainly the look that furiously committed political man Dominic R&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2433,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[46,950,4,61,52,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35584","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-afghanistan","category-dominic-raab","category-politics","category-south-and-central-asia","category-uk-news","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35584","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2433"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=35584"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35584\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35585,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35584\/revisions\/35585"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=35584"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=35584"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=35584"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}