Buenos Aires Herald editorialIn British politics, a strategy known as the dead cat has entered the limelight in recent years. As Boris Johnson wrote in 2013, when you have lost an argument beyond all hope, the dead cat is a way of distracting your adversaries. If you slam a dead cat onto the table, you may not win — but you can be pretty sure people will be talking about something else because now there’s now a dead cat on the table. As with the omnibus bill failure, what’s really behind the anti-abortion bill that fell flat despite raising alarms is an open question. Either way, it seems like the bizarre dead cat metaphor could be useful in the coming years.

Source: Bueno Aires Herald February 12, 2024 00:31 UTC