It feels as if the country is in a very very dangerous place.
We are experiencing losses and damage across a number of metrics and there is insufficient will and courage for those who have to power to step up to ACTUALLY step up.
And, yes, I do expect a police officer presented with clues whilst walking through a corridor crowded with people drinking alcohol, + 15-20 >people in an adjoining room drinking alcohol to investigate and reach supportable conclusions from those clues.
That should have resulted in him issuing warnings and fines as they would have to anyone else.
And they clearly do start retrospective investigations. See the cases against 4 people for an outdoor vigil. Sarah Everard.
They have lost their way, their purpose and trust.
The only emergency drills I recall throughout my own entire school life in England were fire drills. I asked a near neighbour to ask her children if that had changed. Still the same.
It seems there is never enough dead and injured people in the 🇺🇸 for them to look the fact that it is their gun culture and access to firearms that is driving this.
21 mass shootings since the Texan school shooting last week.
Listen to this #Newsnight interview with a Russian State TV journalist who resigned over the 2022 invasion, explaining what happens when you don’t toe the Party line.
But then I wonder about @maitlis when she did not toe the party line
Richard Sharp being a massive Tory Party donor, overt Brexit supporter & boss of Rishi Sunak at Goldman Sachs was seen as a Gov benefit in the appointment. Is this too not influencing where to toe the Party line? Literally.
Tim Davie, now DG of the BBC, had stood as a councillor for the Conservative Party in Hammersmith in 1993 and 1994 and was deputy chairman of the Hammersmith and Fulham Conservative party in the 1990s.
What’s patriotic about watching our economy limp around with a ball and chain attached to it?
What’s patriotic about reducing the freedoms of our citizens and hampering the opportunities of the young?
What’s remotely patriotic about lying to try and cover up the manifest failure of the project?
What is patriotic about squandering taxpayer money on a pointless project when it is so desperately needed to invest in our health, education, environment and future?
Why the Ministerial Code is a constitutional nonsense – & why the only course for Lord Geidt is to resign–The Law & Policy Blog
The Nolan Principles :Aspirational, uplifting, comforting word bingo. The Ministerial Code: Metaphorical aspirational wallpaper davidallengreen.com/2022/06/why-th…
Love @davidallengreen ‘s word “tuttery” perfectly describing the pointless, disapproving, toothless “tut tutting” we are seeing from Geidt (& not just Geidt. Lord Evans framing of his disapproval didn’t sound much more effective either).
“The textual changes may as well have been scribbles of a bored Boris Johnson, because the content of the Ministerial Code has no constitutional import outside of what a Prime Minister decides it has.
Which is to say it has no real constitutional import at all.”
We long for a sense of common purpose and the solidarity that arises from it.
We experienced it to some degree during the first lockdown. Too often the likes of Johnson rely on past events in which we did not participate to try and evoke those feelings.
He does this whilst also stoking division and culture wars which reveal how shallow his understanding is of solidarity and what it takes to bring about real common purpose.