The Truth is Not Available for Comment at This Time: An open letter to Alexander Boris de Pfeffel Johnson

Dear Beloved Leader, This letter is in response to your open letter to parents, carers and guardians of children, where you thanked us for the “great job” we’re doing home-schooling our children. This is much the same as you clapping for NHS workers, isn’t it? You know, where you make a token gesture, devoid of

Take it on the Chin

100,162 recorded deaths from Covid-19 in the UK as of today. 100,162 people dead: loved ones – somebody’s someone. These are lost lives, not statistics. We must never allow ourselves to become used to the unrelenting horror show that this is. How did we come to this? In March 2020, when it first became clear

Look Them in the Eyes

There’s a new advertisement on Plague Island. Its surface aim is to curb the spread of Covid by showing the public critically ill victims of the disease and hard-working, pressurised NHS staff. We are reminded of the of the toll of the disease, both in terms of what it has done and continues to do

The Truth Is A Sinking Ship: An open letter to Donald J. Trump

Dear Contestant 45, Even though you were not our President – that is, you were never a representative of the UK – your dangerous and venomous politics made it across the Atlantic Ocean and found a home here, too. Populists like you have always been present; regretfully, you gave them legitimacy on an international stage.

The Persistence of Memory

‘To heal, we must remember. It’s hard sometimes to remember. But that is how we heal. It is important to do that as a nation’. President-elect Joseph Robinette Biden Jr., 19th January 2021, on the eve of his inauguration at the Lincoln Memorial. As well as memory, it will take courage to look back and honestly

We’re No.1!

We are currently the country with the highest Covid death toll in the world. The Independent reports that nearly 1,000 people are dying every day on Plague Island, whereas New Zealand – who took a very different strategy to combat the virus to us – have not recorded a Covid death for four months. Our tiny island!

Hostiles on the Hill: Part II: The Truth Will Set You Free

We watched some further footage released from The New Yorker of the Capitol Hill insurrection. I honestly don’t understand how the insurrectionists (mostly men) don’t seem to have any awareness of how ridiculous they look and sound. They possess zero concept of irony. There are QAnon conspiracists, outright white supremacists and militias – amongst others

Covid Deniers

There are a lot of people denying that this virus is real. There are people who take a Libertarian point of view and think this is an excuse to erode our civil liberties (as previously discussed in our note ‘And the Newspapers Said, ‘It’s All Your Fault, Stupid Peasants’. The mantra of ‘never let a

He Likes to Ride His Bicycle: Part II

Still no admission that Our Beloved Leader broke the rules; still no evidence that he did not. By the way, Priti Patel, this yet again demonstrates that the rules are definitely not clear, despite what you insisted yesterday to cover your PM’s (bike) tracks. It’s just more of the usual contempt shown to the public. We’re just

He Likes to Ride His Bicycle

Our Beloved Leader likes to get out and about on his bicycle when he has free time on Plague Island. Whilst us plebs have been told to stay local – that is, local to your village or part of town – it was reported today that de Pfeffel either cycled or drove to Olympic Park