The politics of delusion
There is a powerful scene in the film ‘The Great Escape ‘ where Ives can’t take anymore after one of the tunnels is discovered and with all hope lost walks towards the wire and is shot ‘trying to escape’ in effect he commits suicide because the balance of his mind has gone. Having turned the whole of the U.K. into one vast prison camp, Stalag Luft U.K. , Boris and his deranged little helper Matt Hancock are indulging in the politics of delusion that the wire surrounding every