Mission To Explain

Born into the Labour Party's purple, Peter Jay did more than anyone else to burden Britain with the monetarism that was inflicted by the Labour Budget of December 1976, when Jay's father-in-law was the First Lord of the Treasury. Margaret Thatcher and Geoffrey Howe were delighted that their own backbench critics' fox had been shot. Nearly half a century later, the merger of corporate and state power to the point of the physical violence on which that merger depends, and there is a word for that, is more complete in Britain than anywhere else, to the extent that we barely notice it.

Thus, this very day, the Labour Party's private goons grabbed a man by the throat, banged another's head against the wall, and used handcuffs to which one cannot see that they had any lawful entitlement, although it would be even worse if they turned out to have been within their rights, all in full view of the television cameras, which could only mean in full knowledge of their own impunity. Like or dislike these particular protesters, but welcome to Starmer's Britain, arguably the most perfect restoration of Jay's Britain since 1979.