Biden will be meeting with King Charles III at Windsor Castle and Rishi Sunak at Number 10, but for the US president this visit will be a chore, and unlikely to result in anything of substance. No president in modern American history has done more to undermine the partnership with the UK. His shameless knifing of Defence Secretary Ben Wallace’s candidacy to be the next NATO Secretary General was classic ruthlessness from Mr. Biden, who can barely disguise his sheer hatred of Britain, Brexit, and British history.

Joe Biden has been part of the Washington political ruling class for over half a century, entering the Senate back in 1973 representing the state of Delaware. He has built a well-earned reputation as one of the most crude, narcissistic, and rude politicians of our time. He has amply conveyed this approach in his dealings with Britain, bullying the British Government successfully over the Northern Ireland Protocol, sinking a trade deal with the United Kingdom after several rounds of negotiations by the Trump administration, and thumbing his nose at the King’s Coronation, sending his wife, Jill, in his place. …

Biden is a president who exudes incredible arrogance while demonstrating a limited understanding of many foreign policy issues.

[I think Gardiner could remove the qualifier on that last statement. Biden has a limited understanding of pretty much all public policy issues. That’s one reason why he’s utterly reactive, his policies are shallow and barely much more than mere slogans, and why he keeps fumbling his way through speeches using the same recycled talking points Biden’s been using for decades. — Ed]