Blair switch project long overdue

I'M BEGINNING to wonder if that Supreme Court ruling on sexuality - a statement of the flipping obvious; that to be a woman you have to be, er, born one - is having wider implications than simply getting the nation thinking straight on basic biology.

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I'm thinking of Tony Blair's refreshing bluntness this week about net zero ("doomed to fail"). Would he have chosen to speak the truth about our hopeless wishful-thinking on reducing carbon emissions to nil, were it not for the new climate of no-nonsense straight-talking, kicked off by those judges a fortnight ago?

There's been a change in the national mood; an alteration in the atmosphere. You can almost taste it. Overnight, it's OK to say the emperor has no clothes. To name that elephant standing in plain sight on the other side of the room. Call a spade a spade.