Modern national leaders spend lots of their time flying. Do grip-and-grins at international meetings really improve their citizens' lives?

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Keir Starmer, the increasingly hapless British prime minister, travels abroad so much that his nickname is “Never-here Keir.” People figure the collapse in his popularity after his election sweep just 16 months ago is so unenjoyable he prefers to stay away.

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One of soon-to-be ex-Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene’s complaints about Donald Trump is that he should “Park Air Force One” and get back to tending to the needs of the MAGA people who elected him, whom she speaks for and who don’t care for foreign entanglements. Or foreigners, really.

Justin Trudeau used to get in trouble for flights of hypocrisy, and hypocritical flights, advising us all to get around on bio-degradable ox carts while himself jetting about like a crazed water bug. One especially frenetic spring he logged 38,000 kilometres in 38 days,........

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