School buildings closed at the 11th hour, banned knives banned again and a new job for Shapps? Clearly it’s time for an intervention, says Guardian columnist Marina Hyde
were reporting on the ban on zombie knives coming into force that week, with regular surplus banning announcements occurring with strange frequency ever since.
Some sort of eye-catching pseudo-policy is certainly needed to distract from the fact that Rishi Sunak’s administration has just ordered the last-minute right before the new term begins. Also, they won’t say which ones. If only the government had featured a “schools week” at some point in its seemingly endless cavalcade of themed weeks this summer.
You may recall that in the run-up to the 2010 election that would usher in 13 years of Conservative rule, one of David Cameron’s strongest attack lines against the then Labour prime minister, Gordon Brown, was that he “”. It now emerges that the Conservatives didn’t fix the roof when they knew it was crumbling.
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