Brief conversation about David Cameron with the missus ends with her shaking her head and saying: "He's just so low-grade."
And that's really it, isn't it. Quite apart from anything else, he's just just a cheap, tiny, superficial, self-interested little man. It's an embarrassment that we made him prime minister.
And even worse to think that this country chose him over a political heavyweight like Gordon Brown.
Anyway, yes. She's more pithy than I am.
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It's funny. Wandavision wasn't the show that I wanted it to be and it was all the stronger for that. Falcon & Winter Soldier isn't the show that I wanted it to be, and it is all the weaker.
I really wanted a show to grapple with what it meant for a black man to be Captain America. It felt exactly the right moment for that. But there's really not much about it at all.
There's moments - the scene with the old supersolider, hints in the scenes with Falcon's sister. But mostly it seems concerned with the notion of violence.
Bookshops are open, thank the lord almighty. The finest retail experience in the history of humankind is possible once again.
You should obviously go out there and immediately buy my book - How To Be A Liberal, really rather good indeed, look at my bloody stars.
But failing that, just go buy a book, any book at all. Those shops have been struggling. And a high street without a bookshop is a sorrowful fucking place.
There is something quite aggressively joyless about anti-pub Twitter (no, I didn't know it existed either).
If people are expressing how much they like something - whatever it is, Monet, steak, tulips, fucking Postman Pat - you can just let them do it without interrupting to point out how much you don't care.
Such a weird website. It's the equivalent to going up to two people on the street and screaming I DON'T FIND YOUR CONVERSATION INTERESTING.
It's not even that I want to get back in a pub anymore. I mean... I do. I really fucking do. But that's not the main thing. It's that they're the sign of things being halfway normal. I really need them to be open in the background.
The first time they closed, it did a number on me. 'The pubs are closed in England' is a horrible statement. It's like the show-don't-tell shorthand for catastrophic national emergency.
The first point I had when lockdown eased was honestly akin to a moment of religious transcendence. Then when things started locking down again last autumn/winter, I was desperate for pubs to stay open.
Lots of criticism about this. I think it's the right position, expressed in a sensible way for a leader of the opposition.
Covid passports, in this context, means for domestic as well as foreign use. The latter is inevitable. The former isn't - there's no evidence it would help reduce infection and lots of reasons to think it might not help.