We need to talk about Covid. Not least because my other half won't shut up about the statistics and I need an opportunity to vent too. It's... not going well (the old pandemic sitch, not my home life. Stop asking about that). On an anecdotal level, one of the few households on my road I actually talk to (real social butterfly me. Can totally remember my next door neighbour's name and everything) has recently been afflicted and at least two of the local dog owners have contracted it too. If someone with my limited reach knows of cases, the country must be positively swarming with pathogens.

There's been something of a suggestion from the scientific community that the cost cutting measures of getting rid of every single measure to track Covid might not be the most sensible of plans. Just because you're not counting cases any more doesn't make the whole situation go away.

It would be a less galling situation (probably not true since people would be dying anyway but allow me a little hypothetical flourish) if they didn't keep wheeling lickspittles in front of the press to insist that Johnson got all of the big calls right in this pandemic. Like missing the first five Cobra meetings, delaying lockdowns, offering financial incentives to drive rates back up when they were mercifully low, partying like there's no tomorrow when the rest of the country was in lockdown, funnelling billions of public funds into private enterprises to minimal effect, insisting that they were following the science when it's pretty conclusive that wasn't happening... I could go on.

Given the way they've been trying to subvert the narrative ever since, it feels important not to let this type of stuff go. Just because they were in charge doesn't mean they were the right ones to be at the helm. Just because there's other stuff going on doesn't mean they should be let off the hook.