Q: Is for Questioning and quarantine
Questions are what you ask. Questioning is what you do. It is hard to keep questioning for four months straight. It gets tiring, you lose energy and give up. If we all remembered the full incompetence of our government during this crisis, we would be storming Downing Street on a daily basis. And, it is […]
P: Pubs
The opening of pubs in the UK marks the end of lockdown. We are, at last, free to do what we do best. Meet up with friends and talk complete bollocks. Rather than sitting at home alone, we can now meet up and compare conspiracy theories; it’s like Brexit, but better. There is a lot […]
O: Obesity and other stuff
As landfill sighs from the weight of another week’s PPE, our government’s inactivity on Brexit peeks through the fog and we are forced to wear masks after 18 weeks of indecision (facemask transition?), we arrive at the letter O, which, without further ado, stands for obesity. People who are overweight are less likely to be […]
N: Is for Networking
Networking is dead. Actually, it isn’t. Someone I know put a post on social media, saying that if anyone he had worked with previously had any need of work, he would put them in touch with a suitable contact. He has got a lot of contacts, so I told a friend, who had just lost his […]
M:100 days of solitude
M is for Media After 100 days of lockdown, the UK government is no longer being held to account. Government daily briefings stopped a couple of weeks ago and they are effectively no longer under scrutiny. The BBC has been muzzled by funding threats and the only information we get is leaked to and then […]