Crime always pays for the Tories – that's why they turn to it again and again | Martin Kettle
Political campaigns like this are best described as performative cruelty, a policy-light approach whose central purpose is to savour the potential anguish of those it defines as threats. Donald Trump was a master of it; for him, the cruelty was all. Among all current British politicians, performative cruelty is also Patelâs particular stock in trade. It is to be found everywhere in her politics: in her approach to asylum seekers in the Channel, to the penal system and to crime. It is there in her approach to officials â a charge of bullying against her was shamelessly overridden by ...
Source: theguardian.com
