Boris in Blunderland

So this is where we’ve got to. A man stands up and gives a forty-minute speech, packed with jokes, about how well things are going. He mocks his rivals, puts economic failure down to the presence of immigrants, and celebrates the withdrawal from Kabul as a triumph - maybe the modern equivalent of Dunkirk. He ignores the current crises of fuel and food supply, the endless failures of his dysfunctional government, and the imminent and complex horrors that will arise from cancelling the increase in universal credit - evictions, food poverty, unemployment and mental health among them.

That he should act like this is no surprise, but it’s heartbreaking that so many people think that a shambles like this is the best leadership that we can hope for. Beam me up, Scotty.