Eventually, surviving businessmen will be able to row between mountain peaks, but for now corporate efficiency trumped the climate emergency. Morrison has a spiritual twin in Richard Branson, who – as part-owner of Flybe – was one of the rescue plan’s impoverished beneficiaries. Either way, the Flybe rescue has angered the Ryanair boss, Michael O’Leary, among others, who say it amounts to state aid. Tactically benching BP shows the sort of dimly sentient self-awareness humanity should have been exhibiting in the 1980s. Jackson’s reply was simple: “I don’t want to.”• Marina Hyde is a Guardian columnist

Source: The Guardian January 17, 2020 17:09 UTC