If it's not safe for Johnson to be going to India - and it isn't - how can the country not be on the red list?
Presumably it will be added later today. There's no way for this to make sense otherwise.
Adding it will be a complete admission of failure. They left it too late. We allowed the B1617 variant into the country, without knowing what it can do or how dangerous it is.
Whatever else you do today, read this thread. We're leaving ourselves wide open here
One of the key questions about Johnson is: Can he be damaged? Or does that wink-wink image he's cultivated insulate him from political attack? Well it looks like the lobbying scandal might be about to answer it. politics.co.uk/comment/2021/0…
We've no way of knowing which way it'll go. Perhaps by this time next week it'll all have fizzled out, or maybe the damage will all focus on Cameron and the civil service.
But there are strong reasons to think that it can damage him, at the very least by providing a backdrop of Tory sleaze that make any future missteps more prominent.
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.
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.