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That’s partly because Johnson was engaged in a game of deceiving the public. But it’s also for more profound reasons. If he could have delivered levelling up, he’d have presumably done so. But he couldn’t, because he gave no serious thought to how it would be done or what would be required to achieve it. The kind of cross-departmental, centrally instigated granular target work which functioned for New Labour was jettisoned in favour of a daily diet of nonsense and gibberish.
I’m not huge on musicals or on plots in which women pine endlessly about their man. So I nearly had to be physically dragged into this by my friend before grumbling for the first half hour in a state of sullen irritation. Yeah, so they’ve done it again. Eight years after their last album, Blur are back. And the new single is exceptional. Vividly and plainly them, but with a sense of age and maturity to it. It’s really quite extraordinary the way they keep returning every few years, maintaining a level of quality over decades which is hard to find anywhere else. They’re back – thank God they’re back.
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