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Ozymandias Johnson: ‘Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair!’
ALAN SIMPSON says modern Western societies show all the signs of impending civilisational collapse
Prime Minister Boris Johnson, speaks to the media after arriving at RAF Brize Norton

RESIST the temptation to wallow in the civil war Conservative MPs are embroiled in or the resignation of yet another of Boris Johnson’s ethics advisers.

Johnson lurches between sophistry and stupidity, and Labour may think all its Christmases have arrived at once, but more serious issues hang over us.

Politically, we are at a moment standing somewhere between George Monbiot’s “Regenesis” and Jared Diamond’s “Collapse.” It is a perilous place to be.

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