Are We Seeing a New Era? – Or is it the Same-Old, Same Old? – The Tamar Yonah Show

Are We Seeing a New Era? – Or is it the Same-Old, Same Old? – The Tamar Yonah Show

On this show, Tamar has two guests who fill us in on some of the latest happenings in Israel and around the world.

Same old strange new world

Once, during the Boris Johnson years, I asked my dad if politics had ever felt as weird to him as it did then. He came of age in the 1980s, with Thatcher and Heseltine and Foot and Scargill. Whatever you think of their respective politics, these were big characters, at times almost self-satirising. The “grown-up” politicians of the 1990s and 2000s — the first I knew — were more boring, managerial types, which made Johnson’s cultivated ridiculous…