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Ian Dunt

@IanDunt

23 Apr

Liberalism vs Libertarianism in the age of Covid: My talk next week on what exactly the difference is between these viewpoints and why one of them seems to have completely lost its tits.

eventbrite.co.uk/e/liberalism-v…

There's two kinds of ticket - £6 just for the talk. Or pay £15 and get a signed copy of How To Be A Liberal for a tenner off.

Basically that second category is intended for people who liked the book, want to give one to a mate at a reduced rate and get access to the talk for free at the same time. They'll send it to the address of your choice.

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Ian Dunt

@IanDunt

19 Apr

If it's not safe for Johnson to be going to India - and it isn't - how can the country not be on the red list?

Presumably it will be added later today. There's no way for this to make sense otherwise.

Adding it will be a complete admission of failure. They left it too late. We allowed the B1617 variant into the country, without knowing what it can do or how dangerous it is.

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Ian Dunt

@IanDunt

14 Apr

One of the key questions about Johnson is: Can he be damaged? Or does that wink-wink image he's cultivated insulate him from political attack? Well it looks like the lobbying scandal might be about to answer it. politics.co.uk/comment/2021/0…

We've no way of knowing which way it'll go. Perhaps by this time next week it'll all have fizzled out, or maybe the damage will all focus on Cameron and the civil service.

But there are strong reasons to think that it can damage him, at the very least by providing a backdrop of Tory sleaze that make any future missteps more prominent.

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Ian Dunt

@IanDunt

13 Apr

Brief conversation about David Cameron with the missus ends with her shaking her head and saying: "He's just so low-grade."

And that's really it, isn't it. Quite apart from anything else, he's just just a cheap, tiny, superficial, self-interested little man. It's an embarrassment that we made him prime minister.

And even worse to think that this country chose him over a political heavyweight like Gordon Brown.

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Ian Dunt

@IanDunt

13 Apr

It's funny. Wandavision wasn't the show that I wanted it to be and it was all the stronger for that. Falcon & Winter Soldier isn't the show that I wanted it to be, and it is all the weaker.

I really wanted a show to grapple with what it meant for a black man to be Captain America. It felt exactly the right moment for that. But there's really not much about it at all.

There's moments - the scene with the old supersolider, hints in the scenes with Falcon's sister. But mostly it seems concerned with the notion of violence.

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