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Journalist, author, and academic.
Mr. Starmer may be as dull as a damp weekend in Doncaster, but, faced with the prospect of political personalities displaying rather more obvious shows of panache, a bit of boring mightn’t seem such a very bad thing after all.
The UK urgently needs to tackle its culture of managerial complacency, indifference, and inaction in certain areas of the public healthcare system by displaying both moral conviction and political substance; sadly this is something it currently lacks.
This is the state of the UK today: One of the richest countries in the world unable – or unwilling – to afford to feed or safely educate its children.
One cannot easily imagine that too many future historians will be lining up to praise the morally vacuous and economically illiterate administrations of Boris Johnson and Liz Truss, governments, in which Nadine Dorries held senior roles.
Rather than reserving our outrage to address the climate crisis or fight social injustice on a global scale, we prefer to exhaust our moral energies on trivia.
The optics of Sir Keir Starmer relaxing and joking on stage with Tony Blair won’t help to dispel his increasingly prevalent image as another resilience-lacking politician who favors style over substance.
X marks the spot, the spot where Twitter was buried, and along with it the hopes of many of its more optimistic devotees.
Britain’s Prime Minister Rishie Sunak tweeted, conflating the Labour Party with “a subset of lawyers” and “criminal gangs.”
We may understand and indeed share the desperation and outrage of these most zealous environmental campaigners; but if indeed, they’re starting to do more harm than good, then our message to them needs urgently to be spoken loud and clear.
It isn’t easy to see how the Conservative party can ever recover from this, but its instinct for survival – so often trumpeted in its claims to be the longest-lived political party on the planet – will doubtless ensure that it eventually will.
