The prime minister is apparently pursuing ways to land the 2028 Open for the president. With friends like that, POTUS surely won\u2019t be carrying his own clubs<\/p>\n
At what point does realpolitik tip over into nakedly facilitating conflict of interest\/corruption? I only ask in the strictest hypothetical terms after reading that Keir Starmer\u2019s government has been exploring whether golf bosses could host the 2028 Open championship<\/a> at Donald Trump\u2019s Turnberry resort in Ayrshire. Sorry, but no. It\u2019s almost as if the prime minister is compiling material for a seminal 2025 business manual. Call it The Art of the Kneel. Perhaps Starmer could ask the Treasury to \u201cexplore\u201d buying a load of Trump meme coins.<\/p>\n According to reports, Donald Trump has frequently mentioned in his phone calls with the prime minister that he\u2019d prefer it if the Open returned to Turnberry. As so often with this particular caller, the reply to this should simply be, \u201cAnd I\u2019d prefer to be talking to Mickey Mouse, but we\u2019re all making compromises.\u201d Failing that, just go with: \u201cGod, you always want MORE, don\u2019t you? Scotland invented the great game of golf. Have you said thank you ONCE?<\/a>\u201d Unfortunately, the actual reply seems to have been: \u201cCapital idea, Mr President! How can we make that happen?\u201d<\/p>\n Marina Hyde is a Guardian columnist<\/p>\n Continue reading…<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The prime minister is apparently pursuing ways to land the 2028 Open for the president. With friends like that, POTUS surely won\u2019t be carrying his own clubs At what point does realpolitik tip over into nakedly facilitating conflict of interest\/corruption? I only ask in the strictest hypothetical terms after reading that Keir Starmer\u2019s government has … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40127","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40127","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40127"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40127\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40127"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40127"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40127"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}