The anti-woke aren’t so anti-elite
Britain’s conservatives are taking America’s lead in the war on ‘woke’ After the election of Joe Biden, UK premier Boris Johnson – who prefers nothing better than being all things to all men – attempted to have and eat another cake. This time the gateau in question was whether he thought president-elect Biden was, as…
Meet your new Daddy?
Boris Johnson is thus far shaping up to be the kind of Prime Minister we always suspected he would be. I for one am not optimistic that this will be his undoing. It may well be churlish, at the apex of a global health and economic crises, to contemplate the political demise of the sitting…
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My Own Private Quarantine: could the pandemic give us immunity to FOMO?
April 28th, 2020 Though it might be bad form to invoke a think-piece inspired by not one but two hallmarks of our increasingly obnoxious cultural lexicon, there is, I think, a connection to be drawn between the two most notorious. That is, ‘YOLO’ (*you-only-live-once — a stunning insight, well done Generation Y) and its apparently…
A Serious Man?
April 21st, 2020 Although much of the Guardian’s output these days can be politely described as verging on farcical, it was from the paper’s editorial on Keir Starmer’s election as Labour leader that I drew a curious snigger. The editorial sub-title ‘a serious politician’ had inspired in me the unexpected comparison between Labour’s latest lawyer/leader…
La Peste Nouveau
April 8th, 2020 Albert Camus would be having a field day right now. Perhaps not literally — unless you could find a meadow nestled between one of Paris’ labyrinthine arrondissements. Not quite figuratively, even. The closure of “inessential” services, i.e. the Parisian café (although, crucially, not the tobacconists) would perhaps have been one sacred cow…
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