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Four years ago, when Qatar hosted the World Cup, Keir Starmer had a fit of the vapours. As leader of the opposition, he blocked Labour MPs from attending. Though personally a keen football fan (he supports Arsenal), Starmer announced that he would not attend the final even if England was in it. The Qatar World Cup turned out to be a success, and many of the criticisms against the Gulf Arab state on human rights grounds were exaggerated or invented. Four years later, Starmer is Britain’s prime minister. And in a characteristic display of double standards, we’ve heard not a squeak of protest from Downing Street about the US World Cup - yet the case for boycotting President Donald Trump’s United States is more powerful than the case against Qatar. Far more powerful.