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2022: The year Conservatives broke Britain

2022: The year Conservatives broke Britain

Singapore-on-Thames sinks into the mud

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Nick Cohen
Dec 20, 2022
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A version of this article originally appeared in Die Welt. Writing for a German audience imposes new disciplines. You must use terminology and offer explanations that UK readers don’t need. But it also allows you to state broad truths about the collapse of right-wing fantasies, which as recently as 2019 looked as if they would dominate this country ind…

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