![]() ![]() “On the border between Wales and England” there is “a great river dying before our eyes,” writes George Monbiot in The Guardian. But the Cummings interview articulated Johnson’s “strange sense of self awareness” – his “carelessness and the callousness” – indeed, “the whole experience of Britain being run by a jumped-up former newspaper columnist.” “Having conceived, orchestrated, strategically directed and managed two of the biggest disasters to hit Britain, Brexit and the premiership of Boris Johnson, Cummings now tells us, with a sinister grin playing about those thin lips of his, that it was all about annoying his opponents, quite deliberately misleading the public, and generally getting his way, no matter who was paying any kind of cost,” writes O’Grady. “I suppose everyone knows Johnson’s shortcomings by now, because we see them virtually every day,” writes O’Grady. “So now he tells us! The £350m claim about the EU and the NHS on the side of the big, red Brexit bus? Wasn’t actually, you know, the whole truth – and Dominic Cummimgs knew it full well,” writes Sean O’Grady in The Independent. Indeed,“it would usher in a ‘papers please’ mentality previously unheard of in peacetime,” she warns. “Even now, many are convinced the move will never happen – it’s just a bluff to get the young double-vaccinated, copying Emmanuel Macron’s interventions in France.” But if ministers truly intend to push this policy through, “and previous form in goalpost relocation suggests we should take the Government’s words seriously”, then the consequences could be “unthinkable”, she writes, “For the first time in living memory, we would be granting domestic privileges based on health status transforming the relationship between individuals and the state”. ![]() “Those who warned against vaccine passports whether on grounds of discrimination, ethics or practicality, were repeatedly told not to worry, that the whole thing was a madcap conspiracy theory,” writes Grant. For months, it felt like half the Cabinet was busy quashing rumours that domestic vaccine passports would ever feature in English daily life,” writes Madeline Grant in The Telegraph.
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