If Labour is to stamp out antisemitism, its leader must act with integrity
How is British politics like a bad night at the theatre? Well, the leads are hopelessly miscast, the speeches go on too long and the minor roles are crude stereotypes. (I’m not buying this “Jacob Rees-Mogg” character, sorry.) And there’s another echo, too, which the playwright Lucy Prebble identified on 28 March. “I wonder if one of the reasons we get sick of certain issues is directly related to the lack of meaningful consequence,” she tweeted. “It’s like being stuck in an endless Act Two. Eventually, you resent whoever made you sit through the show.”
It’s a strange paradox: we live in a world where Amazon tries to deliver your package almost before you’ve bought it, while the entirety of the world’s knowledge lives inside a black rectangle you keep in your pocket. Yet politics seems crushingly static. We pull the metaphorical flush handle, again and again, but nothing happens.
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