Quietly, on the other side of the world, new revelations about the Covid pandemic have been unearthed. And they are staggering.
It won’t have received all that much attention back in Australia, but this week there were some rather troubling revelations about the British government and its near-The United Kingdom suffered 230,000 deaths from Covid, more than 10 times Australia’s toll, and is currently holding an inquiry to examine and critique its response. As such, we’ve been learning more about Boris Johnson’s vacillating, often negligent handling of the virus.
When you read through all the private material submitted to the inquiry as evidence, it is genuinely jaw-dropping to learn how much frustration and contempt Mr Johnson’s closest advisers had for his leadership. Many of their words were no more charitable than those written in newspaper columns or bellowed into microphones by his fiercest critics.
And therein lies the point. Everyone whose private correspondence is now emerging knew exactly what Boris Johnson was. They always knew. Yet the wannabe Machiavellis among them pretended he was a fit person to be prime minister anyway. Mr Johnson has been compared to Donald Trump so often at this point that it’s become a horrendously dull thing to bring up, like telling the same anecdote at every party. Passably witty the first time, perhaps, back in about 2015, and
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