Crises such as public health must be met by the state and there’s the Conservatives’ rubConservatives look like cranks today, not because of personal failings of this or that politician, but because they cannot deal with the crises of the modern world. It’s not that they don’t have answers – rightwing thinkers spit them out faster than a machine gun fires bullets. It’s just that their answers are irrelevant and, even in Tory terms, self-defeating.All viable responses to global warming, vaccination, the job losses artificial intelligence will bring and failing public health enhance the role of the state. It must… Source – Full Article https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/jan/08/baffled-by-modernity-tories-cant-acccept-only-nanny-can-cure-our-ills