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Morrison’s lies cover up a lack of substance and interest in governing. Any solace? He’s not alone Crikey 2 days ago © Provided by Crikey Australia isn’t the only polity to deal with the problem of a national leader who is a serial liar — plainly, the United States, reflecting the adage that everything is bigger over there, had to deal with the pinnacle of the form. But the United Kingdom continues also to be governed by a man with a near-Trumpian contempt for truth. Boris Johnson, perhaps to an extent even greater than Trump, has made a career out of lying, right from his days as...

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WhatsApp IF ONLY BORIS JOHNSON had been as quick to respond to the threat of covid-19 as he was to react to the threat of a new football super league. No sooner had six British clubs announced their plan to form a breakaway league with top European clubs than the government swung into action. Mr Johnson arranged a summit in Downing Street to discuss ways of scuppering the scheme. Angry Tory MPs suggested possible punishments for miscreants: a windfall tax on the breakaway clubs, fewer work permits to prevent the signing of players from abroad, unleashing competition law, withdrawing police su...

[Excerpted from the latest Radio Derb, now available exclusively through VDARE.com] Here's a phrase due for an airing: "asymmetry of indulgence." That phrase was coined by conservative British journalist Ferdinand Mount. He was writing about how Leftist politicians get a pass, an indulgence, when they speak in the globalist-universalist diction of Karl Marx and Mao Tse-tung; but when a conservative dares to murmur that perhaps rampant multiculturalism is not a great idea, he is denounced as Literally Hitler. Plainly we have an asymmetry of indulgence in regard to police shooting of civilians....

This article is more than 1 month old How could old Etonian Ferdinand Mount possibly understand the character of the northern city? He used his imagination Sheffield takes centre-stage in Ferdinand Mount’s memoir of his Aunt Munca. Photograph: Christopher Thomond/The Guardian Sheffield takes centre-stage in Ferdinand Mount’s memoir of his Aunt Munca. Photograph: Christopher Thomond/The Guardian Sun 7 Feb 2021 03.00 EST It comes over you only rarely in life: the swoony feeling that a book might almost have been written for you. Two weeks after I finished it, I can’t stop thinking about ...