once upon a time, the parody of a Labour centrist was someone who would non specifically say "I am against bad things and broadly in favor of good things". it has since been discovered that this was unacceptably utopian.

One of the most unattractive things about the pro-war crowd is the way they never stop whining and always try to make everything about the tiny few times that they didn't get their own way.

I almost wonder who will break ranks for a backlash-to-the-backlash longread saying "the secret of Boris Johnson is that me and my colleagues were afraid that the labour party would carry out racial persecution, which in retrospect seems less likely than it did at the time"

He *must* be a genius, the idea that our finest minds were fooled into endorsing a boorish psychopath is too horrible to consider.