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Why Boris Johnson’s Covid metaphors fall flat while Van-Tam’s enlighten
Analysis: in contrast to PM’s condescension, expert’s endearing stories have won the nation’s trust
At least when Tony Blair intoned that “a new dawn has broken, has it not” a few short hours after his election victory on the night of 1 May 1997, it was actually dawn. These days the metaphors emanating from 10 Downing Street seem to bear less and less resemblance to reality.
Boris Johnson, our leader in this crisis, evokes men on horses, bugles tooting, a veritable cavalcade of military metaphors to keep us chipper as we wait to be vaccinated.
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