Jenrick’s incredible journey – from self-centred halfwit to self-centred halfwit | John Crace

Reform’s latest defector from the Tories is a politician whose eye has only ever been on his own ambitionIt’s come down to this. Watch any reality TV show and it won’t be long before you hear the lead presenter talking about how each contestant has been on a journey. It’s as though we can’t survive without a narrative structure. An attempt to give emotional meaning to something fundamentally meaningless.It feels as if everyone has to be on a journey now. If you’re not, then you’re somehow less interesting. Only half a person. Even our politicians are no longer exempt. In... [Continue Reading]