I seem to recall the Conservative government was quite happy to encourage people to stand outside their homes clapping for the NHS - and made themselves visible doing the same.
Likewise, rather than pay NHS staff a pay increase that offers some recompense for the failure to keep their salaries in line with inflation, and to recognise in a meaningful way the hard work and risks they undertook during the pandemic, the organisation is awarded a George Cross.
Both of these examples are, I believe, gestures rather than concrete, practical actions.
Yet Priti Patel and others label "taking the knee" as "gesture politics" and decry it.
To think that London, or anywhere else for that matter, does not belong to any one demographic
Nicola Sturgeon’s husband re-arrested