TONY LEON | It’s time the president took off his rose-tinted glasses and faced reality

Dystopia on the grand scale of last week is apparent to everyone bar the president, it seems

25 July 2023 - 21:15

Guardian journalist John Crace coined the killer phrase “aural valium” to describe the desperate-sounding, essentially misplaced, and meaningless, optimism of besieged British prime minister Rishi Sunak...

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