Assassination as state policy

Murder is bad and murder for political ends is doubly bad because it affects far more people, but state-sponsored murder of the leader of another country is a whole different level of crime. If it becomes normal and acceptable, then we are back in the Dark Ages politically. That’s not a good place to be.

On June 15, two foreign construction workers were found guilty in London’s Old Bailey of setting fire to two homes and one car that once belonged to British Prime Minister Keir Starmer.Photograph courtesy of Wikimedia Commons

Opinion

BY GWYNNE DYER

June 17, 2026

LONDON, U.K.—Britain’s soon-to-be-ex prime minister, Sir Keir Starmer, is so harmless and ineffectual that it’s hard to imagine anyone wanting to kill him, but somebody in Russia apparently did. On June 15, two foreign construction workers were found guilty in London�...

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