From my Twitter account this morning on issues I will not have time to address here today:
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Aditya as usual on-point.
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2021/jul/22/covid-climate-crisis-politics-individualism
“the brazen stat-bending and the coprophagic cynicism that have warped British discourse..”
“The Covid deniers are, as often as not, also the climate deniers; who are — wouldn’t you know it? — the most extreme Brexiters.”
“Lawson, as Margaret Thatcher’s chancellor, played a vital role in breaking the social contract that had underpinned postwar Britain, on everything from welfare to pay to pensions. What his successors are now doing is trying to dismantle what’s left of the ethical contract Britons still hold with each other. If they succeed, the politics of extreme individualism will make impossible the collective response essential to tackle social crises, from Covid to social care to climate.”
“.. a growing extremist individualism. It is an ideology that claims to be about freedom when really it means selfishness; and it sees any curtailment of its liberties, no matter how justified or temporary, as Stalin sending in the tanks. Last weekend, the chair of the Tory 1922 backbench committee, Graham Brady, claimed that face masks were really about social control.”
Excellent article