Armando Iannucci’s Diary: Reasoning with a pandemic, Boris Johnson’s word soup, and how to fix our broken politics
In England, we’re not so much sleep-walking as screaming-while-fully-awake into Covid disaster.
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Armando Iannucci: It’s time for a very British revolution
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