As H.P. Lovecraft once observed: “From even the greatest of horrors irony is seldom absent.” And so it is that in the week the Tory government finally made us world leaders….in death, as we took the unenviable title as the country with the highest death rates per capita in the world, our collective horror has indeedContinue reading “The Ironic Mr Cummings”
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Incompetence and Ideology Yes, but Is There Also a Dog Whistle in Johnson’s Coronavirus Response?
Finally the prime minister enacts some fairly unequivocal measures and orders a lockdown of the UK. Across the country a collective sigh of relief was exhaled. In comparison to other countries’ response to Covid 19 we are second only to Italy for the number of deaths from the virus before imposing a lockdown. A troublingContinue reading “Incompetence and Ideology Yes, but Is There Also a Dog Whistle in Johnson’s Coronavirus Response?”
From the Outside Looking In 