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Mind your language

Are our feelings towards politics apathy or inertia?

24 August 2019

9:00 AM

24 August 2019

9:00 AM

My husband, with a dependable appetite for chestnuts, says he would be the ideal person to start an Apathy party. There is, it is true, a great lack of appetite for politics at the moment, yet people are annoyed to find they cannot ignore it. It is unwelcome and insistent, like toothache.

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