Last week could have been a pivotal moment in British politics. It should have been. It could still turn out to be hugely important but where were the British public? It’s not entirely clear. After an astounding week in British politics, they seemed to shrug and turn away. Maybe the Dominic Cummings testimony to the
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I Watched Dominic Cummings Give Yet Another Talk About How Clever He Is
Before Dominic Cummings displayed great villainy in a rose garden – like Donald Sutherland in the Hunger Games before him – myself and many others had already begun to suss out that this man, this bald man seen standing ominously behind Boris’ shoulder like a vulture looming over a dying buffalo, might not be as
Reflections on the incompetence of the Johnson government
Being ideologically opposed to government, or the very least top-down imposed upon us government, we can sometimes just criticise government action on that ideological line. It shouldn’t exist so what it does is wrong. The pandemic though is helping us see things in a different light. It was anarchists who led the way in terms
Johnson, Cummings and the spectacle of scandal
We’ve finally gotten to the end of a road which has been decades in the making, in which politicians have slowly realised something that the direct action left has known for a very long time — noise is not a threat. There’s been a conceit in Western politics going back generations that if a politician