Testing, testing, 1, 2, not 3
In mid-February, I started with a sky-high temperature. After that, I was absolutely shattered for two days. Adhering to governmental instruction, I telephoned 111, and followed their advice: no need [...]
How a solicitor political leader might act?
With the PM fighting for his life, the mantle has been passed to Dominic Raab, a solicitor. Sidestepping the constitutional crisis, given that it is the Queen who appoints a [...]
No time for sexism, Secretary General
In a thoughtful piece printed in The Guardian on 2 April 2020, United Nations Secretary-General, Antonio Guterres, argues for a three-pronged approach to tackling the pandemic. To boil it down, [...]
Get well soon, Boris
For temporal context, I type this blog as the PM is spending his second night in hospital with coronavirus. As I type this second sentence, Boris has now been taken [...]
Starmer and Raynor
Within the last few hours, Keir Starmer has been elected leader of the Labour Party, with Angela Raynor elected Deputy. Starmer received 56% of the vote. As a member of [...]
Andrew Gray 2, BBC 0
Disgracefully and yet wholly unsurprisingly, on 3 February 2020, Boris Johnson’s henchmen prevented half of the attendant media hacks, who were already assembled inside Number Ten, from attending a briefing. [...]
Failing to prepare is preparing to fail
Pre-pandemic, only someone inculcated against hearing accurate news about the NHS would not know how just parlous a state is it in. Never-events are now commonplace, often leading to deaths. [...]
Thank goodness that Johnson beat Corbyn
(For context, I type this blog just minutes after Johnson and Hancock have tested positive for COVID-19.) When the electorate cast their vote in December 2019, multiple factors influenced each [...]
Lock Them Up?
It’s a criminal offence to speed, because when you speed, you are a danger to others. It is a criminal offence to have unprotected sex, as a HIV carrier, if [...]
The Return of the State, and The State Strikes Back
All hail the State! All hail the State. Those of you who claimed that the only way to recover from the International Banking Crisis of 2008 was to cut, cut [...]
