How do we solve a problem like Maria?

Political hypocrisy and the systems that incentivise it.

The Triumph of Hyprocrisy, Thomas Rowlandson

Two tweets from Maria Caulfield, MP for Lewes and Minister of State for Health, caught my attention last week. In the first, she stood with ageing constituents supporting their fight against homes being built in her constituency. In the second, accompanied by another crowd of voters mostly over fifty, she was …