I got involved in a twitter conversation about vaccine roll
outs today. What seems ridiculous to me is that people (particularly Brexiters)
regard it as something of a competition. This is due to the UK at last getting something
right during the pandemic as others try to get to grips with the vaccine distribution.
Opting Out
By opting out of the programme whilst still, technically, in
the EU, the UK appear to have stolen a march on ...
One of the most curious things about the death of Captain
Tom Moore, is the enforced grief that is put upon us. I didn’t know Tom, but I
will go with the benefit of the doubt and assume he was a nice chap. His laps
around the garden caught the public eye and a lot of money was raised. That’s
good, that is.
However, here are few of the things I heard regarding Tom Moore, yesterday. “He bonded a nation in our darkest period”.
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One of the things that I have found to be a test of my
resilience during the pandemic is alcohol dependency. Before last spring, I was
barely drinking and not touching a drop in the week.
It seemed that I had lost any dependency and broken all the habits of an adult lifetime. I was feeling cleaner for it too. Breaking these habits had come from watching a documentary by Adrian Charles called ‘Drinkers Like Me’.
It turned out I was a ...
What some people (who would defend Boris Johnson if he
pushed his turds through their letterbox) fail to see, is that this latest public
sector pandemic scandal is more than just starving kids.
If the country were bankrupt and could only afford to hand
out five quid food packages, most people would accept it. It would be awful but
if all our resources had gone directly into public services (not public
services contractors) and the country ...
If the ageing process, Brexit and Covid have taught me one
thing, it’s that making impulsive assumptions can result in public shaming and
not learning about the devil in the detail. It also allows people like Toby
Young, Julia Hartley Brewer and Laurence Fox to make money for being the voices
of lunatic reason.
So, with that in mind, I decided to not pay much attention to the outrage directed at footballers who had broken Covid-19 ...
