The suspension of the International Criminal Court's chief prosecutor following a misconduct probe is not merely a scandal. It is a symptom of a deeper malaise, a rotting of the very pillars upon which the post-war liberal order was built. The United Kingdom, ever the moralising scold, now demands institutional reform.
How rich. The same establishment that brought us the Iraq inquiry and the Partygate farce now presumes to lecture The Hague. But let us not mistake hypocrisy for irrelevance.
This crisis is a gift. A chance to ask the question no one dares: Is the ICC a court of law or a theatre of virtue signalling? The prosecutor's suspension is just the curtain call for an organisation that long ago traded justice for politics.
The UK's demands, however, ring hollow. They want reform? They should start by acknowledging that the ICC, like the Roman Senate in its twilight years, has become a stage for ambitious men and women to posture while the empire burns.
The only honest response is to dismantle this failed experiment and start anew. But of course, that would require admitting we were wrong. And that, dear readers, is the one sin the liberal elite cannot abide.
