it is a pathetic attempt to claw back some personal credibility following his disastrous handling of the Covid crisis and a response to pressure from UN Secretary-General, António Guterres, for Britain to set an example when it hosts COP 26 at the end of next year in Glasgow.
“As the UK government doubles down on its ambition to assert state power at home and across the globe, it is all the more necessary for the left to demand that Scottish independence presents a real and genuine alternative.”
The new spike in cases and hospital admissions shows the failure of the Johnson government’s strategy.
Obesity is often a proxy indicator of poverty, mental health issues or both in Britain. For all their talk of a “levelling up”, the Tories have never in their decade in government shown a serious effort to address either. Their current “war on obesity” is nothing but window dressing and distraction.
They live on the planet where it is considered perfectly normal for family members to live in a castle, as Wakefield’s parents do, or to have a private wood you can stroll in, like The Cummings do. It is the world of the rich and powerful, the world of the ruling class
This was not only a devastating defeat for the left and progressive forces, but a huge victory for English nationalism.
Ian Parker looks at the shape of the Tory Party as a reflection of quasi-fascist ideological ideas now present in British political life.
Cameron’s book “For the Record” reeks of entitlement. If you disliked him already, this book will have you practically throwing up.
