UK Tories want a national database of porn-viewing habits

Oh fuck not this bullshit again.

UK PM Boris Johnson has built a career out of running across rivers on the backs of alligators, always moving fast enough that he escapes their jaws. His career is a long string of outrageous scandals: lying, fraud, infidelity, abuse, all escaped with impunity. Like any self-respecting posh sociopath, Boris knows how to fail up.

But eventually, even the nimblest of gator-racers loses a step and finds a set of jaws clamped around his leg. Boris is embroiled in a scandal — he ordered a national lockdown that meant that no one in the land, not even the Queen, was allowed to socialize, even as he presided over more than a dozen parties in his official residence.

In the grand scheme of awful things Boris has done, this barely rates, but it has managed to rile both the UK columnist class and the Tory base, thanks in no small part to Boris’s own rivals in the Conservative party, who sense an opportunity to depose him and move into the PM’s flat.

In a desperate bid to save his political life, Boris has deployed Operation Red Meat, a series of stupid, unworkable and performatively cruel measures to distract from his scandal. Operation Red Meat’s policies include defunding the BBC, ending all covid restrictions, campaigning…