Thanks to @JonnyDymond for filling in for me again on @BBCPM today. I’m off work as I’m “living the story” with my own positive covid test. It was a PCR home test taken on Saturday as I live in a surge borough. The result was a big surprise... ... as I have no obvious symptoms, regular negative LTFs (including on the day of the PCR and since then too), a record of assiduous mask-wearing and I’m weeks beyond my second vax. Haven’t sat indoors at a bar or restaurant since March 2020.

Just missed my tube stop reading tweets from people thinking that I'm a secret far right racist (and one who's happy to be used in Britain First campaigning material). It is so ridiculous that I haven't wanted to dignify it by saying any more than my original clarification.
1/5 But here is what happened. Over two years ago, I was walking in Kennington when two people who I didn't know jumped out of a van and said "can we have a selfie?" That is a not very remarkable event. So I said yes and smiled with them as I ordinarily would.
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Quick thread on UK politics.
Help me out here. Parliament clearly doesn't want a cliff-edge Brexit, but Brussels may make that the only choice, other than a very soft Brexit (which the EU thinks is the only solution to the Irish border issue). 1/9 But what happens if parliament votes to yield to the EU, and soften Brexit; and then refuses to boot the government out in a confidence motion? Every outcome seems implausible. 2/9