{"id":186705,"date":"2021-06-01T08:59:33","date_gmt":"2021-06-01T08:59:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/?p=203271"},"modified":"2021-06-01T08:59:33","modified_gmt":"2021-06-01T08:59:33","slug":"from-the-somme-to-covid-the-deadly-toll-of-bad-leadership","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2021\/06\/01\/from-the-somme-to-covid-the-deadly-toll-of-bad-leadership\/","title":{"rendered":"From the Somme to COVID, the Deadly Toll of Bad Leadership"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dominic Cummings criticised the British government response to the Covid-19 pandemic as a case of &#8220;lions led by donkeys&#8221;, a phrase commonly used to describe British military leaders in the First World War. He may have intended simply to abuse Boris Johnson and some of his ministers as catastrophically inept, but the comparison is valid  <a href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/2021\/06\/01\/from-the-somme-to-covid-the-deadly-toll-of-bad-leadership\/\">More<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The post <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/2021\/06\/01\/from-the-somme-to-covid-the-deadly-toll-of-bad-leadership\/\">From the Somme to COVID, the Deadly Toll of Bad Leadership<\/a> appeared first on <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/\">CounterPunch.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">This post was originally published on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/2021\/06\/01\/from-the-somme-to-covid-the-deadly-toll-of-bad-leadership\/\">CounterPunch.org<\/a>. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dominic Cummings criticised the British government response to the Covid-19 pandemic as a case of &#8220;lions led by donkeys&#8221;, a phrase commonly used to describe British military leaders in the First World War. He may have intended simply to abu&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":75,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186705"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/75"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=186705"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186705\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":186738,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186705\/revisions\/186738"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=186705"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=186705"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=186705"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}