Of all the things…
OF all the things the British state could have done. Of all the fingers that could have been lifted, all the ills that could have been cured – or, at least, diagnosed correctly; all the lives lost without need or gain, that could have been the last. Of all the dying enterprises that could have been resurrected, all the lost industries that could have been returned, all the blemishes that could have been scrubbed clean. Of all the dead and dying towns that could have been saved. The British state decided to ban cigarettes in pub gardens.
If you are reading this article in this magazine, and not doing so for the purpose of ill-intent, then I do not need to explain to you – or sell you on the idea of – the British state being a jumbled and chaotic mess of bureaucratic malpractice, and a treason so casual and endemic that …
The rest of this article features in our July 2024 print issue, available to subscribers.
