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The party’s problem may lie in the way ex-Labour leaders like Gordon Brown and Ed Miliband “dredge up… global solutions to global problems” rather than thinking about how to fix Labour. Meanwhile, “His replacement as Labour leader has less charisma than a long video of Iain Duncan Smith doing a jigsaw puzzle”.
“Labour was not in office, but it was in power.” So what happened? “Here we are, barely the length of a parliament later” and the politics of Jeremy Corbyn’s Labour are “entombed, buried deep beneath the political firmament like nuclear waste”. The party lost the general election, but “appeared to have everything else: youth, juice, ideas, memes and strident forward-motion”. “In the summer of 2017 to be Labour was very heaven”, writes Will Lloyd on Unherd. “They were vulnerable because the government did not bother to keep them safe.” “The truth is, disabled and older people were not ‘vulnerable’ to the virus simply because of their health or age”, she adds. “It would be easy to assume these deaths were largely owing to pre-existing health conditions, but they were as much a matter of pre-existing inequalities.” ONS data shows “disabled people’s deaths from Covid are linked to poverty and cramped housing, as well as unequal access to healthcare”. Despite Matt Hancock’s promise to “throw a ring of protection around care homes” and Boris Johnson’s thanks for the “sacrifice” of at-risk individuals shielding, the “reality” was that “these were the very people who would disproportionately go on to die”, she says.
10 in a photograph shared by Dominic Cummings, Frances Ryan writes in The Guardian that “these five words… say much about this government’s catastrophic handling of the pandemic and the real value it places on the so-called most vulnerable people”. “Who do we not save?” Reflecting on the words written on a blackboard in No. But “there will be a cost if western troops are no longer available to support struggling democratic regimes or overthrow tyrants.”
“Our governments often meant well when they dispatched the Marines or Paras to far-flung places,” Hastings adds. But “in neither purpose have they achieved durable success”. “Most of his compatriots applaud, and the new Taliban offensive in the north is unlikely to change anyone’s mind.” Meanwhile, France is “souring on its long mission in the Sahel” and “the current British government lacks enthusiasm for foreign wars, as do many of its people.” Since 2000, western powers have intervened around the world “to prop up sympathetic local governments and promote stability” and “deny Islamic militants havens from which to attack us”. Joe Biden “defied his generals to announce that the US is abandoning a generation-old commitment”, Hastings says. But “as the western powers prepare to quit Afghanistan next month, that question is getting serious”. “A hoary old joke ran: what if they had a war, and nobody came?”, writes Max Hastings in The Times.
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