The articles, the opinions, the stories, the poems and the cartoons Ovi magazine covers for Tuesday October 18th, 2022
The Implosion of Liz Truss by Dr. Binoy Kampmark
Liz Truss is proving to be the architect of her own spectacular demise. She laid the mines in a fit of drunken ecstasy and decided to skip across them with an almost childish arrogance that has stunned her own party members. Along the way, a few have gone off, doing her what can only be regarded as terminal political damage.
The effort to shift sole responsibility for the abysmal economic plan on tax cuts outlined in the “mini-Budget” to her Chancellor suggested a lack of awareness and authority. It further suggested a profound lack of competence, if only because the Chancellor had simply done what he was supposed to do.
While Truss supporters suggested replacing Kwasi Kwarteng, pollical reality yielded something quite different. They had been seen as a duo, immune to policy U-turns, keen to promote the “growth” agenda in the face of bizarrely named anti-growth sceptics. Now, everything was for turning. “This,” came the message from Tory backbencher Craig Mackinlay to his colleagues, was “a double U-turn with the handbrake on. Never U-turn. Others will smell blood in the water knowing they can take bites out of your backside & dictate the agenda.”
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Nimble Leap #poem by Jan Sand
“The Jack-be-nimble, with his trick,
Leaped above the candlestick,
Occupied a time and space
Not far from that ancient place
Where Alley Oop, on dinosaur,
Mastered the before before.”
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Screws & Chips #44 #cartoon by Thanos Kalamidas
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