Now to a thread on Keir Starmer's strategy. Which naturally, is already being bemoaned by those who didn't vote for him - and in this age of never-ending online outrage, is going to result in plenty of people putting two and two together and making 3744.

So far, the complaints have been:

- He's made Jess Phillips and Wes Streeting junior ministers (a complaint made through the tellingly bad faith suggestion that junior ministers have any power - they don't - or are part of the Shadow Cabinet. They're not)

- He's not holding the government to account.

Leaving aside for a moment that plenty of people on here would complain if he wasn't spending each and every day calling the Tories a bunch of mass murdering bastards, Starmer finds himself in a very unusual political situation.

A situation which can only be compared to wartime. This might surprise you - but in the 8 months between the start of war and Chamberlain's resignation, Labour didn't spend each and every day attacking him for the failure of appeasement or Munich. They just got on with it.

And the reason they just got on with it is BECAUSE WE WERE AT WAR. Which required national unity. Which was a time in which loud criticism of the government would've been treated as point-scoring and political opportunism. Chamberlain's approval ratings remained remarkably high.

Around the world, opposition parties are not savaging the approaches of various governments. People on here should ask themselves why that is. The public doesn't want that; it wants calm, reasoned analysis and it wants unity. It NEEDS unity at a time like this.

Which is why, for example, Andrew Cuomo is suddenly so popular. He has every right to do so, but has scarcely laid into Trump at all. He's just fought tooth and nail for his state and... got on with it, trying to bring all New Yorkers with him, and governing for ALL of them.

To which, naturally, plenty of people on my timeline have attacked him for his previous record. Which is 100% irrelevant to the here and now; and puts their dogma ahead of his strong, impressive leadership.

Starmer, of course, isn't in Cuomo's position. Labour isn't in govt.

At a time like this, his remit is as follows:

- To make measured, constructive critiques of the government without coming across like an opportunist or playing politics

- To appear statesmanlike

It's later - when we're past the peak - that his criticism will increase.