Vox Sentences: BoJo jus havin a laff innit
Britain to US: You like dysfunctional parties? We’ll show you dysfunctional parties.
Vox Sentences is written by Dylan Matthews and Dara Lind.
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There is only one word to describe this, and that word is "omnishambles"
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Johnson was reportedly betrayed, mere hours before he was to declare his candidacy for head of the Conservative Party (which would bring the PM job with it), by leading Tory Michael Gove — who has since announced his own candidacy.
[The Guardian / Rowena Mason and Heather Stewart]
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Lucky for them, though, the Labour Party is also in the midst of an identity crisis: It doesn't know how left-wing it really wants to be. Jeremy Corbyn lost a vote of no confidence badly earlier this week but isn't leaving yet.
[Vox / Dylan Matthews]
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Angela Eagle, a left-leaning MP who's more establishment-friendly and served in Gordon Brown's cabinet, is rumored to be running against him, though she's apparently holding off to give him a chance to resign gracefully before being sacked.
[BBC]
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As Spectator columnist Freddy Gray put it (in a line that, sadly, only reflects the backgrounds of Gove and Johnson), this is what it looks like when you put journalists in charge.
[The Spectator / Freddy Gray]
A partial, contested, ambivalent victory (aren't they all?)
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In the West Bank, lives are never lost one at a time
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A 13-year-old girl named Hallel Yaffa Ariel was stabbed and killed in her bedroom in the West Bank town of Kiryat Arba on Thursday. The perpetrator, a 19-year-old Palestinian named Mohammed Tarayreh, was shot and killed after the attack.
[NYT / Diaa Hadid and Myra Noveck]
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As always in Israel, attacks beget escalation. In response to Ariel's death, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has already announced he'll revoke the work permits of Tarayreh's family — and the IDF has moved in to close off their village.
[Times of Israel / Judah Ari Gross]
MISCELLANEOUS
VERBATIM
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"Recently I discovered that Google is more in touch with my emotions than I am. … When I scrolled again to the bottom of her email … Gmail suggested a computer-generated response that was shorter, clearer, and, I realized, all I really wanted to tell her: 'I miss you so much.'"
[NY Mag / Ben Crair]
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"If there were a prize for the busiest language, then a language like Kabardian, also known as Circassian and spoken in the Caucasus, would win. In the simple sentence 'The men saw me,' the word for 'saw' is sǝq’ayǝƛaaɣwǝaɣhaś (pronounced roughly 'suck-a-LAGH-a-HESH')."
[The Atlantic / John McWhorter]
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