It’s not really a deflection, is it, when I say that Mandelson was a wrong un and Starmer was wrong to appoint him as ambassador? I said nothing about Mandelson having ‘no clue’. Rowling is different because there isn’t even a suggestion she met him, nor was he invited by her, seemingly. The point is that you are making out that this was some Blairite thing when people of all persuasions had involvement.
