Speaker has to scold two MPs for not wearing masks in the Commons. Threatens to suspend the sitting if they do not wear them.
I'm watching on telly, so can't tell which MPs he was speaking to. He was looking in the direction of the government benches. It felt for a moment like they were close to refusing to wear them - hence the threat.
On the 'let the bodies pile high' quote, Gove says: "She repeats a line from a newspaper but she ignores the fact that the PM not only instituted a second, but also a third lockdown, to keep us safe."
Rachel Reeves sounds genuinely furious.
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Liberalism vs Libertarianism in the age of Covid: My talk next week on what exactly the difference is between these viewpoints and why one of them seems to have completely lost its tits.
There's two kinds of ticket - £6 just for the talk. Or pay £15 and get a signed copy of How To Be A Liberal for a tenner off.
Basically that second category is intended for people who liked the book, want to give one to a mate at a reduced rate and get access to the talk for free at the same time. They'll send it to the address of your choice.
I've asked around friends in India, or who know India well, for places we can donate to help. There is a good list here, put together by people who've been vouched for by someone I trust wehelpgive.org
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.
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.