Forget Cummings’ blurry vision, the looming crisis is plain to see

JOHN BIRD

There are many differences between now and when we last went through death so close and tragic. Now we have newspapers and TV programmes, and the ever-spreading social media. Back then, in the Second World War, we had a tight-lipped press, made tight-lipped by Churchill and his governing associates. Churchill and his government could screw up big time: deaths in Calais and Norway, and North Africa, through poor military strategising. Deaths through poor distribution of wealth and health throughout the war, still based on class and pecking order position. This one man – overquoted as some saviour – saved or cocked it up without the imposition of media and public scrutiny. Churchill, unlike Johnson, could hide his follies, his indecisions and his weaknesses behind censorship. Which means, in this latest death-laden tragedy, that…

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