Banging a certain drum...
The Hate Crime Bill, which was finally published last week, looks set to be Helen McEntee's legacy, as the smoking ban was Micheál Martin's. The real question is whether it's a legacy worth having. History rarely remembers those who criminalise free speech as the good guys.
Steady on there, Simon Jenkins (from the Guardian)...
Britain has spent six months tormenting itself in full worldview. History may now pause its judgment. All democracies make mistakes, not least one currently enjoying Britain's discomfort, the United States. The test of a democracy is not that it avoids mistakes but that it can correct them. The discrediting of Johnson and the downfall of Truss have taken little more than a year. It took the US four to rid itself of Donald Trump.
Huh?
Stephen Collins in the IT is far too generous to the Tories:
Sanity prevailed in the Conservative Party with the election of Rishi Sunak as the new prime minister in place of Liz Truss. The big question is whether a similar outbreak of common sense will manifest itself on the arguably more fundamental issue of the UK's relations with the EU.
After Johnson and Truss, Britain gets Sunak? That is the definition of 'sanity prevailing'?
Speaking of the Tories, Finn Redmond in the IT has this:
The United Kingdom cannot rid itself of its fascination with the nation's prodigal son. So the question — what makes Boris Johnson tick? — will be interrogated, teased apart, obsessed over in the history books for years to come. But there are some impossible-to-ignore qualities that underpin his curious political immortality.He owes much to his obsession with the classics, something that gives way to his unique capacity for rhetorical grandstanding. His mode of communication is informed by his lodestar, the Athenian general Pericles; his words echo the Republican orator Cicero, stripped of all the genuine virtue; the literary symbol of Roman destiny, Aeneas, must arouse something in him too.
Is that a fact?
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