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Hackocracy: Boris Johnson’s insulting slogans are straight outta Fleet Street

  • Posted on April 11, 2021April 11, 2021
  • Polemics from Ogreville

First published on Medium on July 9th, 2020 For those who found the slogans “Take Back Control”, “Get Brexit Done”, and “Stay at Home” too challenging, this government has just the thing. A triumph of brutality, the Prime Minister’s recently unveiled slogan “BUILD, BUILD, BUILD”…

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Keir Starmer and Boris Johnson

Lit Columns

  • Posted on April 11, 2021April 11, 2021
  • Polemics from Ogreville

These columns were published on Lit during 2020. Labour & Tory Political Ill-health Left Us At COVID’s Mercy – November 20th, 2020 Trump’s Bizarre Convention Is The Natural End-Point Of Tory Culture Wars – August 31st, 2020 Conspiracy Corbyn Is Still Wasting Labour’s Time. When…

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Don’t make a cult of the NHS

  • Posted on March 18, 2021March 18, 2021
  • Polemics from Ogreville

First published on April 14, 2020, on Medium Not even Dominic Cummings could have orchestrated the propaganda coup of Boris Johnson rising from the dead on Easter Sunday. This was clearly the work of a higher power, and Johnson knows just who to thank: Thien…

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The aisles of March: What the toilet paper panic tells us about Coronavirus

  • Posted on March 18, 2021
  • Polemics from Ogreville

First published on March 17, 2020, on Medium These are the times that try men’s bowels — at least if the toilet paper aisles of the supermarket are any guide. In years to come, tales will be told of the Great Bog Roll Run of…

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Labour hustings: Corbyn was a disaster. Why won’t candidates say so?

  • Posted on March 18, 2021
  • Polemics from Ogreville

First published on January 20, 2020, on Medium Amid the good humour of Labour’s first leadership hustings in Liverpool on Saturday, an unwanted guest stalked the proceedings and threatened to ruin the party: At the back of the hall in the Arena and Convention Centre, apparently undetected…

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Iranian protesters opt for ‘escalation’ — Why won’t the Left support them?

  • Posted on March 18, 2021
  • Polemics from Ogreville

First published on January 15, 2020, on Medium Just as a lost pet is said to be able to find its way home, Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn this weekend returned to where he belongs: In the street, shouting drivel to a crowd of the…

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Spare us the Christmas piety: Syrians are being killed and no-one cares

  • Posted on March 18, 2021
  • Polemics from Ogreville

First published on December 27, 2019, on Medium The tradition of the “Christmas message”, where politicians offer a seasonal thought for the day, ought to be scrapped for its CO2 emissions alone. Instead, the head of a jet-setting royal family bores on about climate change,…

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Corbyn falls to earth: Epitaph on a crackpot

  • Posted on March 18, 2021
  • Polemics from Ogreville

First published on December 17, 2019, on Medium The British people have spoken, and it’s quite a verdict. Given the choice between Jeremy Corbyn’s Labour and a clown driving a bulldozer, they chose the clown. Whatever the believers say on Twitter or in their opinion columns,…

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Populists can promise the world when zealots have their backs

  • Posted on March 18, 2021March 18, 2021
  • Polemics from Ogreville

First published on November 25, 2019, on Medium “All the promises will be broken.” — Bruce Springsteen, Thunder Road Tis the season for national folly, as the electoral tradition of Labour and the Conservatives trying to bribe voters with their own money reaches new levels of…

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Johnson and Corbyn’s media courtiers dress up in rebel clothes

  • Posted on March 18, 2021March 18, 2021
  • Polemics from Ogreville

First published on October 21, 2019, on Medium It’s one of the great ironies of our time that the political actors who claim the mantle of popular revolt are the ones most openly at the service of power. This is perhaps to be expected of the…

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