I don't know about you but I'm finding it difficult to go through this all over again. I don't mean lockdown. I mean the futility & powerlessness of watching such catastrophic denial & incompetence. Last time, I raged. This time...well, what's point? I know. You know. We all know
BREAKING: Boris Johnson has asked former Mail editor Paul Dacre to run thr broadcasting watchdog Ofcom. Charles Moore is close to a done deal to be BBC chairman https://t.co/rlQmfcDSGq
The Prime Minister calls it NHS Test and Trace, but it's more like Serco Test and Trace.
Today I called on Boris Johnson to bring Test and Trace into public hands.
Join my new political party, The Revenge. Our manifesto is [screaming blood], [crows block out the sun], UBI, [white hot metal spheres replace eyeballs], aggressive public sector investment, a four day week, and [four mile long obsidian dagger impacts Palace of Westminster].
This is all such an awful fudge by people who are so out of their depth but utterly convinced they are not.
I know it would be comforting to think that our COVID response is being screwed by corruption or ideology, but it's not.
This is national death by Dunning Kruger.
Took me twenty minutes to change a single number and add a backslash to a website file because of a cavalcade of things hanging, updating, crashing, and me accidentally hitting the wrong keyboard shortcut in an unfamiliar text editor. I am so good at computer.
Oh Christ. Matt Hancock has now given Dido Harding £10bn of our money to play with...
...because she has a whole *3 years* of experience in health. 🤦🏻♂️