H: Is for health and other stuff

As the UK’s lockdown begins to unravel from the top down and starts to be unpicked by the media, on the day the government launches its half-baked test and trace system, we turn our attention to the letter H. Yesterday, I bumped into my hairdresser. He ignored me, totally blanked me; well, it’s been a […]

G: Globalisation, Germany and 5G

A respiratory virus, originating in Wuhan, China, closing down three-quarters of the world’s population, is globalisation. 5G technology, providing a frictionless communication and transactional future, is also globalisation. Rewind: On October 12th,1492, the Taino tribe gathered on the shores of San Salvador Island, to welcome a party of foreign sailors. The sailors were Christopher Columbus […]

The UK government was ready for this pandemic… 

…until it sabotaged its own systems. We are trapped in a long, dark tunnel, all of whose known exits are blocked. There is no plausible route out of the UK’s coronavirus crisis that does not involve mass suffering and death. If, as some newspapers and Conservative MPs insist, the government eases the lockdown while the […]

F: is for the following…

F is for many things and a lot of them overlap, as do most things in these UNPRECEDENTED TIMES. Furlough:  Over the last few years, a number of strange new words have entered our lexicon and are now in everyday usage;  Trumpisms, Brexit and now Furlough. The definition is: ‘leave of absence, especially that granted […]

E: Is for Everything

Including: Exit, the Environment, Exercise and Employment Exit Remember that time animal rights activists released hundreds of mink from captivity and the animals refused to leave their cages? Well, it appears that’s now us. We want the lockdown to be eased, but we also don’t want to leave our homes. The UK government may be […]