Deborah Friedell: Short Cuts

Created
Fri, 03/11/2023 - 00:00
Updated
Fri, 03/11/2023 - 00:00
Mike Johnson is the least experienced member to become speaker in more than a hundred years. His positions – on divorce, non-procreative sex, contraception, dinosaurs – are almost cartoonishly right-wing, and he’s not entirely on board with free and fair elections. ‘Do you know what a democracy is?’ he said in 2019. ‘Two wolves and a sheep deciding what’s for dinner.’