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Stayin’ Alert
In the UK, the Government has decided to ‘update and broaden’ the message in the battle against the coronavirus. Stay Alert, Control the Virus, Save Lives. You might very well interpret that as broadening the range of options for their exit from a predicament that is becoming more increasingly more hazardous by the day. Indeed,…
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V is for Volte-Face
There’s been a predictable swing in the Tory ranks, and it’s not the errant appendage of a statistical modeller. Neither to the right nor centre in political terms, but away from health onto pounds, shillings, and pence. Yes, they had knee-jerked into welfare, but for Conservatives it’s always a safer bet to stick to the…
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They’ll Mete Again
VE Day – the hearty 75-year commemoration of the obliteration of fascism in Europe. We’ll be celebrating under lockdown because being outside without a reasonable excuse is now a criminal offence. Irony level 10. Naturally, that erosion of liberty will be steadfastly defended as ‘essential support for the NHS’. Mind you, the Nazis could justify…
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Farce of Nature
Within the next week, Boris will be promulgating his grand design to wean us off off his lockdown boob. I only wish that he’d put the same level of contemplation into the decision that made suckers of us all. And that those who are getting so bent out of shape right now had exercised their…
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Back Peddling
The contagion forges ahead. Not the virus but that sinking feeling of whoops. When all the restrictions and lockdowns were hurriedly ushered in, the knee-jerking was not based on any holistic facts that aggregated with any degree of comfort Even now – at the peak if we are to accept this assessment from the UK…
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The Opium of the Peephole
In recent decades, it’s been said that we’ve been losing our religion. But now with the coronabug, we’ve found a new one. The NHS. It embodies the values of Christianity without troubling the epistemological concerns of non-believers. It has its own martyrs who will suffer for us, yet it’s about devotion in practice with tangible…
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Scotched, On the Rocks
As I pour myself another Dettol on the rocks, I’m reflecting on where we go from here. To be frank, it’s a toughie given that boofing a cocktail of methamphetamine, LSD, and ketamine wouldn’t have got us to a conceptualisation of the present milieu. There’s so much mayhem in the world right now that Kim…
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Brass Tax
High-profile personalities and organisations – among them Premier League football clubs – have been slated for partaking in the furlough scheme. They can, apparently, afford to pay their own way out of the current crisis. Now, hang on a minute, let’s get down to the brass tacks. But first, a disclaimer. This isn’t about the…
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Quack!
Mr Trump has waddled off-script again. That must be exceedingly tiresome for his aides who see him trundling along, monotonously sucking up the words from the page through the gaps in his lower teeth, and then – BOOM! He pivots (usually to his right) and flings out a handful of interrogatory sludge to his hapless…
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The Second Wave
Politicians are buckling under pressure to ease the coronacrunch. Germany and Norway are releasing the squeeze, but then again, they were hardly playing by the rules. They had a cogent plan. Most of the other countries are cacking it about a second wave of infections. Well, that’s to be expected because they’re mostly flying blind.…
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