Wikipedia calls Geoffrey Robertson “an Australian-born human rights lawyer, academic, author and broadcaster who holds dual Australian and British citizenship.”
Based on his recent article in Australia’s National Times, we’d call him a lunatic.
It is an open secret at the Commonwealth Secretariat that they do not want Charles III to be the next head of the Commonwealth when the Queen retires—they are looking for someone more inspiring. Mandela, once the favourite candidate, is now too old. But there is an even better candidate whose name is being mentioned as an alternative to Charles in due course, namely ex-President Obama, with his Kenyan ancestry (as some believe, Kenyan birth).
There are rumours that the palace’s refusal to invite him to the wedding was neither oversight nor overslight but a fear that Barack and Michelle would appear to the “black Commonwealth” as superior to Charles and Camilla as future leaders of the Commonwealth.
They’ll make a movie about his life. It’ll be called “The King’s Endless Speeches.”
H/T: Andrew Bolt
