Robert Fisk: Look behind the 'lockdown' cliches and you'll see what really scares Boris Johnson

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Robert Fisk: Look behind the 'lockdown' cliches and you'll see what really scares Boris Johnson
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An infantilised society will not be able to imagine a new future, nor answer the demands of future generations of society of every origin which – far from being ‘distanced’ – must be socially united, writes Robert Fisk

Demonstrators take part in a Black Lives Matter protest in Leeds in the wake of the killing of George Floyd by US policelease God, let us be free of the cliches as well as the virus. I might believe in the “second wave” – now a cliche in itself – but a second wave of cliches will surely diminish our language, our semantics, our very means of communication.

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