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Boris: The Ghost of Christmas Present

TALKING POLITICS

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Politics and the End of Life

Part of disruptive politics has been the way in which those who have power see those who don't. The response to that has required a set of rules that are supposed to apply absolutely everybody, regardless of whether they've got power or not. This is an incredibly toxic mix - it's pleasure breaking the rules for pleasure compared with keeping the rules at moments of deep suffering. And i think when you put the dynamic that yuve already described, and then add it into something that affects people sense of what happenes to them at these most intimate and painful er moments of their lives,. That just magnifies it again another sever times more. I'm over hat. It is a political problem for governments

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