WTF is Going On?
Boris and the high wire, or how to have your cake and eat it
The master of 10 Downing Street sure knows how to have a party, even when he shouldn't
30 January 2022 - 00:02
The mop haired, Latin-quoting finagler presently orchestrating the flailing death throes of ye olde British Empire from No 10 Downing Street has rubbed along nicely, thank you very much, on a political agenda pretty much based on panem et circenses. For us non Etonians who may not have a working knowledge of Latin, this is a system of governance based on fobbing off the populace with bread and circuses. Or, in translation: Brexit and high jinks...
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