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More of the shame
There's a lot of cheerful parping among the pundits this morning about a “change of direction” for the government after the apparent imminent departure of belligerent oddball Dominic Cummings-Britain's second most risible eugenicist-and about an end to the Tories' culture wars, but don't hang your “Am I Allowed To Say Racism Is Bad Again?” bunting ( Read more... ) -
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Welcome to the Upside-Down of the boring culture war, where golf is basically branded an essential traditional working-class sport (because Tory donors wanted the courses reopened) while being concerned about people travelling on public transport is branded an effete pursuit of the lah-di-dah ivory-tower liberal elite (because Tory donors wanted ( Read more... ) -
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Certainly my favourite Greek myth is the one where Hercules tetchily explains that he'd love to be able to help but, as it is, everyone will just have to lump it. And then lots of people die.
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The real victim here
I've made no secret of the fact that I didn't vote for Boris.
But I feel strongly that at this time of national crisis we should give credit where it's due.
So I say we should 100% back our Prime Minister in his unimaginably difficult job of protecting Boris Johnson.
The People's Government's lamentable failure-or perhaps even zealous refusal-to ( Read more... ) -
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The government are announcing some tweaks to the Bank of England and Financial Services Bill, notable mainly for repealing (before it had even had a chance to be introduced) a measure designed by the coalition that would have found senior bankers responsible for wrongdoing on their watch even if the regulators had no proof they personally had ( Read more... ) -
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From Korea by Simon Winchester:One of the more famous Zen masters in Korea was Hyobong, who was a judge during the Japanese occupation-in fact, the first Korean to be allowed to sit on the Colonial bench. But after having to sentence a man to death, he became suddenly disenchanted with the whole idea of colonial justice, resigned, and became an ( Read more... ) -
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“Who’s going to win the election, then?” It’s a question whose elements float around the building like a nebula, coating everything in it with an unsettling film of uncertainty, but rarely do they gather enough momentum to coalesce into a planetoid that can, say, be bowled at me slightly mischievously by one of our cleaners, a lady in her 50s ( Read more... )
