“Hell, it’s been a hellish 3 years. I used to worry that the contradictory demands of Brexit might kill off the civil service. Then, when the full horrific impact of any sort of Brexit first became known, I started hoping that Brexit would kill us off.” theguardian.com/commentisfree/…
“What worries me now is that Brexit might not kill us. That it will never “just get it done”. That we will all simply keep going, endlessly orbiting around this Brexit black hole in a perpetual, exhausting state of onanistic, no-deal groundhoggery.
“This pernicious and systematic contempt for the truth must be tackled by the incoming cohort of parliamentarians if we’re to have any chance of avoiding a Trumpian descent into a paralysing, partisan madness that’ll poison politics for a generation.”
“But civil servants are not blameless either. We aren’t just victims of political gaslighting, we’re also unwilling accomplices in a range of crimes against the country’s mental health. What do they say? Hurt people.”
You can’t THERAPY people out of guilt for doing harm
You can’t THERAPY people out of guilt for doing harm
