My pirate ancestor, the gallows and urgent warnings for Britain

Is the United Kingdom facing dismemberment? 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The propaganda worked, along with my years studying in England, and I’m a great admirer of that country. And now a baffled one. I’ve been roaming Britain again — that’s me and my wife, Sheryl WuDunn, at Trafalgar Square. I’m afraid Prime Minister Boris Johnson may wreck the country, and that’s the topic of [my Sunday column](~/AAAAAQA~/RgRfoFenP0TaaHR0cHM6Ly93d3cubnl0aW1lcy5jb20vMjAxOS8xMS8wMi9vcGluaW9uL3N1bmRheS91ay1icmV4aXQuaHRtbD90ZT0xJm5sPW5pY2hvbGFzLWtyaXN0b2YmZW1jPWVkaXRfbmtfMjAxOTExMDI_Y2FtcGFpZ25faWQ9NDUmaW5zdGFuY2VfaWQ9MTM1Nzcmc2VnbWVudF9pZD0xODQ3NCZ1c2VyX2lkPWFhNDkxZWY3ZjFkOTY0ZTQ5NzlmYjc4NGU3NGUwMWQ3JnJlZ2lfaWQ9Nzc2NzQ5NTJXA255dEIKACGn0r1digS9lFIbdHJpc3RyYW1iYWxkd2luOTBAZ21haWwuY29tWAQAAAAA). I don’t mean “wreck the country” as hyperbole. I do mean that his Brexit may in the long run leave the United Kingdom not only poorer (3 to 6 percent poorer, by various estimates) but also dismembered, with Northern Ireland, Scotland and conceivably even Wales eventually splitting off. Johnson may accomplish the reunification of Ireland that the I.R.A. never managed. My British family is deeply proud that we’re cousins of William Shakespeare, a zillion times removed, but in my column I manage to work in a reference to one of my less illustrious British ancestors: Ralph Hutchison, better known as Ralph the Wrecker, a pirate from Hunmanby in Yorkshire. He was standing at the gallows, about to be hanged, when a messenger rode up with a pardon. I may be here only as a result, so I know Brits can have a change of heart — and I hope it does again. 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That is a reversal of a long period of gains in insurance coverage, and it should be a scandal. In some cases, kids with orthopedic injuries won’t get complicated surgical repairs they need and will be disabled for life. And there’s strong evidence that those without insurance have higher mortality rates. The reason for the decline in insurance coverage seems to be restrictions and requirements that supposedly are about eliminating fraud but have an impact that is simply gratuitously cruel. One problem is that low-income or homeless people often live unstable lives, bouncing from apartment to apartment, with mail rarely forwarded — so they don’t respond to letters and then get dropped from benefit programs. Rachel Maddow and NBC Good for Rachel Maddow for putting a spotlight on NBC and its record on sexual harassment. 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It’s difficult for any company to cover itself, but I was really glad that Rachel stepped up and boldly covered the issue. The Worst Trump Cabinet Member? There’s some competition for the title, but my colleague Gail Collins says it comes down to [Attorney General Bill Barr](~/AAAAAQA~/RgRfoFenP0TdaHR0cHM6Ly93d3cubnl0aW1lcy5jb20vMjAxOS8xMC8zMC9vcGluaW9uL3RydW1wLWNhYmluZXQtd29yc3QuaHRtbD90ZT0xJm5sPW5pY2hvbGFzLWtyaXN0b2YmZW1jPWVkaXRfbmtfMjAxOTExMDI_Y2FtcGFpZ25faWQ9NDUmaW5zdGFuY2VfaWQ9MTM1Nzcmc2VnbWVudF9pZD0xODQ3NCZ1c2VyX2lkPWFhNDkxZWY3ZjFkOTY0ZTQ5NzlmYjc4NGU3NGUwMWQ3JnJlZ2lfaWQ9Nzc2NzQ5NTJXA255dEIKACGn0r1digS9lFIbdHJpc3RyYW1iYWxkd2luOTBAZ21haWwuY29tWAQAAAAA). I think that’s right, despite considerable competition. Indeed, in Gail’s competition asking readers to identify the worst cabinet member, it’s notable that Wilbur Ross, a previous winner, now is down to the middle of the pack. It’s not that Ross is doing better; it’s that the rest of the cabinet is behaving more egregiously. Not a good sign for the next year. High winds carried away embers from the Kincade fire in Sonoma County, Calif., on Tuesday.Jim Wilson/The New York Times Look at that incredible photo by my Times colleague Jim Wilson of the Kincade fire in California. I worry that climate change and fires are going to make parts of the West less pleasant and more dangerous in the future. If only that meant that the United States was more serious about addressing climate change, but I don’t see that happening so far. Now [here’s my column about Britain](~/AAAAAQA~/RgRfoFenP0TaaHR0cHM6Ly93d3cubnl0aW1lcy5jb20vMjAxOS8xMS8wMi9vcGluaW9uL3N1bmRheS91ay1icmV4aXQuaHRtbD90ZT0xJm5sPW5pY2hvbGFzLWtyaXN0b2YmZW1jPWVkaXRfbmtfMjAxOTExMDI_Y2FtcGFpZ25faWQ9NDUmaW5zdGFuY2VfaWQ9MTM1Nzcmc2VnbWVudF9pZD0xODQ3NCZ1c2VyX2lkPWFhNDkxZWY3ZjFkOTY0ZTQ5NzlmYjc4NGU3NGUwMWQ3JnJlZ2lfaWQ9Nzc2NzQ5NTJXA255dEIKACGn0r1digS9lFIbdHJpc3RyYW1iYWxkd2luOTBAZ21haWwuY29tWAQAAAAA) on a path that will perhaps make it no longer Great, but simply poorer and dismembered. For those of us who love Britain, even if we are descended from a pirate, that’s sad to behold. Granted, we Yankees aren’t in a position to complain about bad leaders, but we still hope that Britain will get its act together. 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