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I'm glad journalists are starting to ask, but I'd rather they'd get to the point.
Surely it's very bad for British interests for us to send an ambassador to a country where said ambassador is almost certainly blackmailable by said country's intelligence agencies.
You mistakenly think (understandably, because that's what we're taught, but that doesn't make it true) that those are your interests, or even society's interests, but they are neither. They are the interests of the owners of this country, the royals, the other gentry and land owners, and otherwise filthy rich. Theirs are the only interests the state serves.
What makes your assertion true? Popular up votes on Lemmy? ๐
History. An honest appraisal of the fact that humans mostly work towards goals of self interest. Even capitalism agrees to that... It's half the point.