We Need To Talk About Boris
10 min readNov 21, 2020
Here are two brief reflections (think of it as a double A side if you are of a certain age) on what the UK Prime Minister is up to and what an appropriate response might be, plus an introduction to explain why I am posting this
Let Me Explain
I was furious on Friday. I don’t like being irritated, never mind angry, so this was not good. But I couldn’t help it. Not only had Boris Johnson immediately followed his Green Industrial Revolution announcement (which was inevitably more fanfare than substance) with the declaration he was going to spend half as much…