PPS: Timing is Everything… Timing is everything with leaks. Why would footage of people rehearsing the denial of an illegal Christmas party (doesn’t that sound Cromwellian?) only surface a year after the event? Yes, OK, it’s ‘that time again’. More likely is that someone’s been saving this up for a suitably damaging moment when the […]
PPPS: Henry! This Allegra Stratton business (already it’s yesterday’s news, but I really have got to mention this): the filmed rehearsal took place in the purpose-built media centre that detractors never fail to mention cost £2.6m (so more or less than Allegra Stratton’s house?). This was widely derided at the time for having all the
PS: what has four legs and flies? It’s often instructive to pay close attention to what people actually apologise for. In her resignation statement to the press Allegra Stratton apologises for becoming ‘a distraction in the fight against covid’ and apologises that her remarks in 2020 ‘seemed to make light of the rules’. She goes
…and I’ll Cry If I Want To… When the snippet emerged of Allegra Stratton, apparently joking in December 2020 about a Downing Street office party held the previous week, in contravention of both government advice and the law at the time, I assumed, based purely on appearances (and not being a mixer in such circles)
One of the difficulties of putting pen to paper, so to speak, on matters about which one has an opinion, is that one is all too likely to come across as ill-informed and didactic. I very often find myself talking out loud to Any Questions and I am all to conscious that to do so
I suppose I’m probably someone who thinks too much. Funny how I present that apologetically, as if thinking were a bad thing. Still, I hope at least that I’m not someone who thinks too much of themselves. Time may tell. Who am I talking to? Well, I spend a good deal of time in dialogue
