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Thursday 14 October 2021

Reading The Authoritarian Mind



Javid sorry for Covid losses but says he has not read Commons report in detail

Health secretary falls short of apologising for government decision to delay first lockdown but says ‘there are lessons to learn’

A major assumption slipped in there. Claiming that Javid has failed to apologise for an initial lockdown delay assumes that at the time we knew lockdown was the best policy. Right from the off it's a whopper of an assumption.

I've found you have to possess an authoritarian mind to read the Guardian, a mind where important assumptions automatically escape further analysis. Makes it surprisingly difficult to read.

3 comments:

Sam Vega said...

Remember those blimpish nationalists who were so certain that British was best, that the upper classes had savoir faire, and that hierarchies and deference were virtues?

They've just been reconditioned and pimped up.

Tammly said...

Lots of politicians and others are making the usual comments about 'hindsight is a wonderful thing' but I had a disagreement with a left wing aquaintance in April 2020 over my assertion that lockdowns were wrong and wouldn't work.

A K Haart said...

Sam - good point, now it's blimpish globalists.

Tammly - well foreseen. It still isn't easy to see why highly age-related susceptibility did not lead to far more scepticism about lockdown policies from the beginning.