Thursday, February 03, 2022

Empty Gestures?

Saving His Own Skin: Boris Johnson Deploys Military to Secure Border in Bid to Boost Popularity

Visitors watch as the offshore patrol vessel HMS Tamar of the Royal Navy patrols off st Ives, Cornwall on June 9, 2021, ahead of the G7 summit. - G7 leaders from Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, the UK and the United States meet this weekend for the first time in …
Boris Johnson appears to have rediscovered the concept of border control, having promised to deploy the Navy to secure the channel in a bid to boost his waning popularity.

Allison Pearson.

  So you can imagine how delighted I was to come across the term “far centre”, which was coined by Prof Jonathan Clark, the leading British ...