A poll in December found that 51% in Great Britain thought that it was wrong to leave the EU 🗣️ Keir Starmer’s vow to “make Brexit work” is an affront to this truth ✒️ y_alibhai for ipaperviews
Yasmin Alibhai-Brown: ‘Johnson, who wanted to be king of the world when he was five, now rules over British populism’
The start of the year brings in the blues, usually because the near future is unknowable and most humans need certainty to feel safe. This year feels bluer than ever before. The war in Europe goes on; Covid cases are rising; the NHS is falling apart; and the cost of living crisis is cutting in. Citizen’s Advice warns that more than 37 per cent of families couldAn additional reason to feel cheerless is the populist, uncivilised and crude state we’re in.
The public intellectual Peter York writes in an essay that populism is “a ‘thin’ ideology, short on actual policies, [which] has to team up with something settled and familiar to give it ballast. That’s usually nationalism – anti-immigration, anti-multiculturalism. Build that wall. Ban those Muslims ”. Add in misogyny, anti-woke resentment and untrammelled freedom to hurt and offend.
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