Politics: 250 years after & politicians still suck

Charles Christian
4 min readMar 14, 2022
Thomas Paine

About a month ago, back in those heady days when all we had to worry about in British politics was whether the current incumbent of №10 Downing Street was going to wriggle out of the ‘Partygate’ scandal (ah… such innocent times when that was the only cloud in my coffee) I stumbled upon this quotation and thought: the author must be talking about Boris Johnson. Here’s the quote:

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Charles Christian

Journalist, editor, author & sometime werewolf hunter. Writes, drinks tea, knows things. (he/him) www.urbanfantasist.com + www.twitter.com/urbanfantasist