It seldom occurs to this author that the best way to deal with fashionable absurdities is to laugh at them, and trust in the public’s common sense.
With polls showing a worried public, how can it be that Democrats still flirt with the idea of taking money away from police departments?
Were they using the Ollie Robinson row yesterday to test the water for a wider, deeper intervention?
There is a vocal minority of people who dominate discussions in the media, and seem determined to import the racially-charged culture we see in the US.
Clashes over Black Lives Matter or Extinction Rebellion are noisy, nasty – and, by definition, impossible for Johnson to keep out of.
There’s nothing better than being proven right, even if it’s to confirm your original prediction of doom-laden misery.
Is the sequestering, incarceration and forgetting of these vulnerable children and young adults any better than in Georgian and Victorian times?
We need to be proactive, and champion those universal values that we all share. And BAME conservatives need to be articulating and leading it.
It’s striking that three Tory ethnic minority Ministers – first Badenoch; then Patel, and now Sunak – have sounded clearer-headed than some of their colleagues.
But these demonstrations, which cannot uphold social distancing, will have a catastrophic impact on our collective fight against the virus.
As a rule, the Conservatives are unclear about the politics of equality and identity. But there’s at least one Minister who isn’t.
We have always been champions of justice and we must double-down on fighting inequality through classical liberal principles.