In the dying years of the USSR ageing apparatchiks tried glasnost to open up a decayed, sclerotic system. It served instead to disintegrate it.
The UK has a cohort of politicians who have known nothing but message management their whole careers. #COVID19 will be our glasnost.
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Unlike glasnost, then - that's a policy direction, a principle, a response even. (As with perestroika.) Not just pointless pedantry, I promise! I suppose, I wonder what COVID19 and the shortcomings it reveals will *enable*. I'm not sure it'll be as ... earnest as glasnost...
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Indeed already we see COVID19 being turned towards particular ends - Salvini, Le Pen, Orban. If you want to promote hard borders, it serves that end. (As Chernobyl served promoting openness.)
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