I can’t remember a time in my (quite long) life when our political masters have looked quite as clueless as they do today. In 2016 David Cameron asked the country to vote on an issue which simply could not be boiled down to a binary choice: ‘leave’ or ‘stay’? Since then, parliament has been in meltdown. Now we hear that Boris Johnson will ask the queen to suspend parliament for a few weeks, while he gets on with the job of leaving the EU wihout a deal. This suggests that, in extremis, the queen might say “no”.
On her way to a UN summit on climate change, Greta Thunberg has sighted land. She tweeted this morning that she could see “the lights of Long Island and New York City”. We know we're living in strange times when we're outsourcing the solving of our most pressing issues to a woman of 93 and a 16-year-old girl…
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