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…And What Have You Done

So, this is Christmas: on being sick of the entire country being run as an arm of the Tory party. Also this week, some Christmas songs, fact-checked; and a Dickensian population map of sorts.

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Jonn Elledge
Dec 22, 2021
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A tweet I have been thinking about a lot, courtesy of the Joe.co.uk politics correspondent Ava Evans:

“If you’ve personally made it politically unviable to introduce new restrictions, should you be in charge of the country during a pandemic?”

To be fair to Boris Johnson – no, really, let’s try it – I’m not sure cancelling this Christmas was ever actually …

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