The Telegraph was Boris Johnson's Pravda.... his Courrier de l'Armée d'Italie
"Mr Cummings also said that, near the start of the pandemic last year, Mr Johnson had wanted to keep his weekly face-to-face meetings with the Queen going - but he had to warn his boss that she might die if she caught coronavirus."
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Two of Farage's great great granparents were penniless migrants who came to this country in search of a better life. I wonder what they would make of their ridiculous descendant.
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Yes it's in my book. Farage's immigrant great great grandparents were the Schrods from Germany. That far back we have 16 great grandparents and it's likely that many a rabid Brexiter (like all if us) has immigrant ancestors... fairly recently... that they know nothing about.
Giving the NHS a George Cross is so WW2, so utterly unimaginative, so very Boris Johnson - so school of the empty pit of ideas. Give the NHS staff proper respect and a pay rise instead. That would mean something.
So easy to indulge in gestures. So much harder to actually reward people for their hard work and sacrifice.
A George Cross costs about £10 to make. Yes it's a very high award etc etc... but this is the cheapest gimmick of the pandemic so far.
Earlier this week I sat down with Adrian Goldberg to discuss my book - Fake History, the truth about Winston Churchill and how great myths of exceptionalism have forged the politics of modern Britain. Listen here.. if you like shows.acast.com/byline-times-p…
Two weeks since the book came out and so far I've had just one small clarification from a University history department... obviously if you write a book called Fake History you're kind of drawing a massive target on your head... and asking for trouble
If you want to avail yourselves of a copy - grab it while you can. On all good websites now including: