

If you’re an access journalist, the only way you ask a sitting prime minister of a Western ally “hard questions” is as a setup for him to deflect and downplay criticism. If you would want to actually corner him on this, you would have to build an entire career around not doing that with anybody ever until you come off as harmless enough to get accredited to the press conference, then you’d have one shot at going off script and pressing him on clarification of the obvious, then you’d spend the rest of your career trying to monetize your substack because no network would ever employ you again.
Even Richard Dawkins calls himself “culturally Christian” these days.