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Brits aren’t idiotic – but our institutions are

22 August 2020

9:00 AM

22 August 2020

9:00 AM

Two headlines from the same news-paper, less than three weeks apart. So, the Guardian on 31 July: ‘The Guardian view on delaying elections: it’s what autocrats do.’ This was in response to a suggestion from the US President that the elections might need to be delayed on account of Covid.

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