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It's all feeling a bit World War One.

Incompetent, arrogant, out-of-touch leaders, denying the scale of the crisis, then sending their troops over the top without good defences.

Health workers are dying because they don't have the necessary equipment.
Boris Johnson always wanted to look like a wartime leader.

He does.

Not Winston Churchill. Douglas Haig.
Several historians have pointed out that my comparison of Boris Johnson with Douglas Haig is unfair ... to Douglas Haig. I'm happy to stand corrected.
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Let's not bail out the airlines.
Let's not bail out the oil companies.
Let's emerge from the pandemic into a new, green economy.
To bail out the airlines in response to the pandemic is to address one catastrophe by promoting an even bigger one.
And instead of Richard Branson offering his private island as collateral for a government bailout, why doesn't he sell the island and use his own assets to support his own companies?
He wants to remain as rich as Croesus, while the government saves his business.
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Immigrant (noun), definition: A person demonised in newspapers owned by foreign or expatriate billionaires, until said newspapers discover that the country would collapse without them, whereupon their arrival on these shores is celebrated, until said newspapers forget again.
Please note: there is no commonly agreed term in English for the opposite of an immigrant. This is because, when we try to settle on one, we immediately run into the fact that we all got here from somewhere else.
Yes, bloody Anglo-Saxons. Coming over here with their own language and their own culture, insistently and offensively disregarding British customs.
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ALL the cases cited by people on Twitter so far to justify a hostile military posture against Russia + China involve issues
a. in which it would be catastrophic for the UK to intervene militarily (eg Crimea)
or
b. force of arms can do nothing to resolve (eg human rights issues)
There is plenty bad that the Russian and Chinese governments do. But not one of those things can be addressed by, for example, the UK's F35 joint strike fighters, without making things much, much worse.
In other words, we are spending £40 billion a year on useless toys, while neglecting the urgent imperative to resolve existential global threats through international cooperation, above all climate breakdown.
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