Well, I should say that for its architects, Brexit has been enormously successful. They bet against the country and in exchange gained enormous power and wealth. Why apologise when you believe you've won?

To be clear: it is all bleak. No one should be happy about where climate politics is at.

But let’s attribute the right type of blame.

We don't need more hope in machines. We need *courage*.

5/n

We need to tell stories about fights that last over decades, against enormous odds, that continue wounded despite extraordinary challenges and painful losses, and that in the end overturn a dead order and found a new world.

4/n

BBC, Sky and Times websites don’t seem to contain the slightest mention of the fact the supposed PM in waiting is facing credible allegations of past acts of unapologetic racism. Haven’t checked GB News, Mail and Telegraph, for obvious reasons.

And the narrative form that is both about courage and meant to inspire it in others is not the comedy that ends with a deus ex machina. It is *the epic*.

The first Star Wars trilogy. David and Goliath. The Ring Cycle. The Aeneid. Even the Harry Potter novels, in their way.

6/n

Going to leave you with a Home Office chart from their most recent asylum stats so you can decide whether the UK is a magnet for asylum seekers with a uniquely generous asylum system www.gov.uk/government/s...

Confiscating jewellery from survivors of a war zone makes you look like a fucking Nazi. And the obscene thing is, that is the intention. It's there to look appropriately harsh. Indecent. Filthy. A moral stain. And no-one of good character would have ever proposed such a thing in the first place.