With Queen Elizabeth II, the longest-serving world leader in the West, being placed under medical supervision, U.S. President Joe Biden has published a glowing tribute on social media – to Barack Obama. President Biden, who believes himself to be Irish despite his family progenitor in the Americas likely being an Englishman, has often appeared to harbour anti-British sentiment, declining to give a comment to the BBC on his election with a smirking reference to his supposed Irishness and ejecting a bust of Sir Winston Churchill from the Oval Office on taking up his post, for example.