Interior design Home County Lines has been away for a couple of weeks, but don’t worry – plans are afoot. That’s the thing with a day job: too many ideas, not enough time. Anyway, much bemusement has been expressed at Vlad’s power-trip table, and rightfully so. Jokes about little man syndrome (Vlad looks like a […]
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Making light of this is, of course, the privilige of someone who feels themself safe and the perogtive of fools: people are losing their lives as I write. Diary accounts of the early days of major events are always interesting for their lack of the retrospect, for their idiosyncratic slants and preoccupations that history will
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The Populist-Lite Playbook for Dummies So… BJ is still here then, like a disgraced paedophile loitering defiantly round the school gates. An inappropriate simili in virtually almost all circumstances I’ll admit, but then… BJ is still here and with attitude, having taken lessons from those denizens of water closet politics, Vlad Poo-tin and Don Trouser
You’re so vain… To be clear from the outset: I do get it. At an intuitive level I do understand the anger at the multiple social events that took place at Downing Street at a itime when such things were either prohibited or very much restricted. I understand the particular anger directed at BJ, not
I wanted to get this on record before 12.00pm PMQs today, to say two things without giving myself the advantage of hindsight. What should BJ do? If I were him, I would step down to trigger a leadership election (or whatever the selection process is called), but put myself forward as a candidate. This would
Great Boo’s up, BJ! It really is the gift that keeps on giving, isn’t it? I was thinking that HCL was at risk of losing its cutting-edge relevance, what with yours truly having a day job n’all, but Boris is back with a booze-up to get us all riled and to keep HCL in business.
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)
