Hard to work out if this year will be one we remember forever or if it will be completely forgotten. For those of us lucky enough to stay inside and not lose anyone, there was so little content to remember it by.
Already, most of my memories are from March, when things felt ferocious and scary. The announcement of proper lockdown. A weird anxious behaviour I developed where I'd sporadically clean all the surfaces of the flat.
But from summer onwards, once we had a better handle on what was going on, I've already losing memories, because we have basically done the same thing every day.
It feels like it was crammed full of terrible things happening, a year unlike any we've had before. But for many of us, the lucky ones, I think we might struggle to remember it in a few years time.

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31 Dec 20
This is possible. Talking to people involved in exports over the last couple months, they were divided over whether it would chaos or whether the expectation of chaos would lead many people to sit it out and thereby avoid chaos.
This doesn't avoid the problem, it just makes it less telegenic. It displaces disruption from the ports to other parts of the supply network.
Others expected chaos on day one. Others later in January. Some expect it for weeks, some for months, some not at all. The truth is: no-one knows.
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30 Dec 20
If you hated 2020, just want until you get to experience the first quarter of 2021 in lockdown.
I mean. These are the shittest months if the year at any time. But now they're coming at the tail end of a terrible fucking year.
Thank fuck for the vaccine. If it wasn't coming down the tracks I think things would be getting psychologically very ugly.
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30 Dec 20
Commons debate of the Brexit deal kicks off in a bit and lasts until 2:30pm, when it goes off to the Lords. You can follow here. parliamentlive.tv/Event/Index/72…
I'm going to tweet along to the Commons bit because fuck it, what else is there to do. Just to eat and drink and be merry and relaxed, and why would anyone want to do something like that.
In the mean time, I strongly recommend this blog by @Brigid_Fowler of the Hansard Society hansardsociety.org.uk/blog/parliamen…
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29 Dec 20
Even in the moment of Brexit’s triumph, it carries the seeds of its own failure - my take on Johnson's deal politics.co.uk/comment/2020/1…
Also, guys: New look @Politics_co_uk. Check that shit out. Looking sexy as fuck.
@Politics_co_uk Phoar have a look at that font mate etc.
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29 Dec 20
Not bothered by Labour voting for the deal. It can't be stopped. It's better than no-deal, which is the only alternative. In that scenario, abstain or voting for are the only options and both have pluses and minuses.
What I really do want to see from Labour tomorrow is a full-throated attack on how we got to this point, a detailed criticism of the deal and a proof that they're prepared to link these issues to what we will face in the new year.
I want to see a party that has found its voice on this issue, which understands that it can criticise how Brexit is being delivered without getting bogged down in whether it should be delivered.
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24 Dec 20
Come on let's have this Starmer press conference, I want out of this shit.
Aren't we all mate, aren't we all.
Starmer is up now. You can follow here. labour.org.uk/keir-starmer-t…
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