Boris Johnson has presided over 120,000 Covid deaths in the UK but is under pressure to resign right now over an expenses scandal involving the refurbishment of his Downing Street flat.
Tells you almost everything you need to know about British politics and the British press.
The horse has bolted, took out a mortgage, bought a two bedroom terraced house, met a nice lady horse, had three horselets, traded up to a semi-detached, retired, and is now on a horse cruise around the Caribbean.
‘Bowie was, and remains, a guide for lonely people desperate to connect to a dim constellation they know to be there, but can’t see alone.’
~Lynsey Hanley
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Thoughts on the briefing today, and the path ahead. While the govt has finally announced a national lockdown + schools moving to remote learning, the path ahead is likely going to be long and tumultuous, unless the govt adopts a longer-term strategy for control. Thread.
Michael Gove spent years telling people to trust Jacob Rees Mogg over the governor of the Bank of England and now wonders why the same people trust their Aunty Doris’s Facebook page over the Chief Medical Adviser.