Sunday, January 31, 2021

The dark charisma of Boris Johnson: how to "gaslight" an electorate

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Britain has had more than 100,000 deaths from the Coronavirus, one of the highest rates in the world. Japan, another highly-developed countr...
Monday, September 21, 2020

Boris Johnson: a Hitler satire "Brexit bunker" tribute act and funny fable to authoritarian comedy acts

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 If Alexander Borisovich DePfeffel Johnsonov could be compared to Hitler, it would only be in the sense that he was a man destined for the g...
Sunday, September 20, 2020

The British government's Coronavirus response: "gaslighting" the UK population and Brexit "psy-ops"?

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 The UK government's response to the Coronavirus pandemic has become more and more chaotic and confused in recent weeks.  The government...
Saturday, September 5, 2020

Brexit, CANZUK and Tony Abbott: a vision of "Empire 2.0"?

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 The appointment of Tony Abbott as a UK trade advisor is one of the clearest signs that Britain's government sees CANZUK as a primary p...
Thursday, May 7, 2020

The British government's "Command and Control" Coronavirus omni-shambles

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The news that the 400,000 items of PPE the UK government ordered from Turkey had to be sent back is somehow befitting of an institution tha...
Thursday, April 2, 2020

Lions Led By Donkeys, again: the NHS and the British government's Coronavirus response

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It's a hundred years, or thereabouts, since the Spanish Flu pandemic, which followed on from the chaos and carnage of the First World Wa...
Saturday, March 14, 2020

Coronavirus in the UK: a Brexit "stress test"?

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A country’s culture tells us a lot about how it reacts to a crisis. When the Coronavirus hit Italy, the government put the entire countr...