Parliamentary Process.
Today parliament resumes sitting. On the calendar for this week, if you want to know what is going on, we
Boris Johnson Is A Liar: Dawn Butler Says That The Emperor Has No Clothes
(and is kicked out of parliament for speaking truth to power.) There are two things that one may not do in
Dystopian Dispatches: July 21st
What do we have today? There’s Covid, (going badly) Brexit, (going worse) and Northern Ireland (what can one say?). Democracy is
To Isolate Or Not To Isolate? And Has The Government Really Tendered For Temporary Body Storage?
The PM is not isolating, and neither is the chancellor. The PM is now going to isolate, and so is
Freedom – But At What Cost? And Is It Really Freedom?
The Cambridge Dictionary defines freedom as “the condition or right of being able or allowed to do, say, think, etc.
The Bastille, The Mob, Racism, and Righteous Anger
July 14th The Bastille, The Mob, Racism, and Righteous Anger On this day in 1789 a rag-tag mob of disenchanted sans-culottes stormed
Viral Basics: What Happens With Variants, And Why This Is An Issue Of Chemistry, Mathematics and Copy 10,000.
(Oh, and mandatory masking in public places.) There’s been a lot of information going around since Monday about why what the
“Strong Britain, Great Nation” or “Ein Volk, Ein Reich, Ein Führer”?
Who Are We? What Are We Becoming? Why is the government encouraging children to sing nationalistic songs on Friday? Where does
Social Care: The Poisoned Chalice
Tomorrow’s meeting on social care – billed as a solution-providing exercise to an issue that has long been delayed –
Why We May Believe Cummings About Johnson and Hancock . . .
. . . but it won't make any difference to this post-truth government. So Johnson thinks Hancock is hopeless -