Sir Keir Starmer has left office almost without noise – and, astonishingly, only now. He remained Prime Minister despite misleading Parliament and the British public about his knowledge of Peter Mandelson’s ties to convicted sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein. He remained despite integrating Peter Thiel’s Palantir mass-surveillance and war apparatus into the heart of Britain’s public services. He remained despite bringing Britain to the brink of a nuclear crisis with Russia. And he remained despite his government’s direct participation in the genocide in Gaza. But Starmer’s most consequential legacy is one that outlives any daily news cycle. His premiership inaugurated a paradigm…