Apologies that I’m not finding much time at the moment to write new blog posts, a situation that will probably continue for a while. Well, here’s one anyway, chiselled out from a couple of hours of idling on the internet recently and trying to catch up on world news by triangulating rather unoriginally between the BBC, Al Jazeera, the London Review of Books and The Guardian. And if triangulating between four sources sounds odd, believe me it’s not as odd as some of the things in the news they’re reporting on. Here, I’m going to make reference to one particular columnist from the last of these outlets – a familiar antagonist of mine who I’m a bit loth to bring up again. It’s not so much that I want to renew public hostilities as that his articles capture a certain sense of the moment that I’m minded to share with regular readers here in the hope of getting some feedback on your own thoughts about the current state of play. At the expense of awkward phrasing I’m not going to mention him…
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