It really is a corker from @NickCohen4 from the first paragraph.
“Who knew that children go to school in September? Who guessed that hundreds of thousands of students head to universities where they – and easily shocked readers should look away – strive with every fibre of their being to mingle with each other as vigorously as they can?”
“What clairvoyant might have predicted that, when the government offered the public cut-price restaurant meals at the taxpayers’ expense, the public would gobble them up?”
“Or that, when the prime minister urged workers to go back to their offices & save Pret a Manger, a few brave souls would have returned to their desks & risked having “dulce et decorum est pro Pretia mori” carved on their gravestones?”
Deliciously sharp verbal blade in the ribs
....”The Johnson administration lives to prove the truth of his words. It is abolishing meritocracy not to create a fairer society but a public administration that rewards courtiers who never speak truth to power.”
And to uplift it further this is a corker of a thread by @redhistorian and Cummings’ belief he IS promoting meritocracy.
HIS kind of “meritocracy”
“The problem with this government is not that it rejects meritocracy, but that it puts too much faith in its own ability to assess merit & bypasses any institution that challenges it. And its view of merit underpins a defence of inequality, as a reward for the deserving rich.”
It felt as if @redhistorian had been eavesdropping a lunchtime conversation I’d been having.
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