“There are also people sniffily suggesting that, because there’s no public demand for such a move it is, ipso facto, pointless – as if the only reason to do anything is to attempt to plump the polls now, and that doing anything that might be termed “governing” is for wimps. Boris Johnson may have left office two years ago, but Johnsonism, the belief that governing is entirely a matter of chasing headlines and shaping a message rather than the boring, messy issues of actually running a country, still hangs over our politics like a bad smell”
https://jonn.substack.com/p/my-much-anticipated-2024-books-of