NOVA’S DIARY

Robert Hutton

“Let me be me!” Rishi is very excited, because he says this is the year he gets a “mandate”. This isn’t a word I’ve heard before, but I think it must mean when people ask you to stop being prime minister. He is having a meeting with his friend James, who used to write nice things about us in The Times, and his other friend Isaac, who has a big beard and tells us nice things about numbers. “There’s this path,” Isaac is saying. “I’ve seen it.” “Is it the path to victory?” Rishi asks. “Yeah, man. Or to something else. I don’t remember. But I saw it in this wild vision I had. It was right there.” He reaches out in front of him. “What was it like?” James…

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