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DID Boris Johnson draw on a classical education at Eton and Oxford in mobilising the ancient Greek notion of irony to tell his back-bench MPs that Britain’s successful coronavirus rollout was down to those quintessential Tory values of “greed” and “capitalism”?
Or does he believe this stuff?
Whatever, he quickly realised that it was necessary to deploy a rhetorical device of classical antiquity to clothe his immediate realisation that, outside of his privileged circle, the opposite is generally held to be true.
The social base of the old Tory Party has disappeared as surely as that of Labour, argues ANDREW MURRAY – today’s right are the debased offspring of a capitalism that speculates without investing and profits without producing
The US blockade of Cuba raises risks of a new global pandemic, experts warn at Unison conference
Young Communist League general secretary GEORGINA ANDREWS says the far right are filling a vacuum created by Labour’s abandonment of working-class interests — we have to give our class a better offer
If the government really wanted to address public finances, improve living standards and begin economic recovery, it would increase its borrowing for investment, argues MICHAEL BURKE