Covid and the Tell-Tale Heart, Part II: Rats and the Sinking Ship

‘Do not adjust your mind, the fault is in reality.’ R.D. Laing Listening to Dominic Cummings speaking at the Select Committee Hearing today has left us with mixed feelings.  It’s a weird one because there is no joy in knowing that, actually, we and many others were right. We sensed this was a chaotic, catastrophic

One Man’s Libertarianism is Our Nation’s Authoritarianism

Planned new bills were revealed in The Queen’s Speech last week. They are rather concerning, mostly because some appear to seek to curtail certain freedoms that we are accustomed to in the UK: things that are usually given in democratic countries. Apparently, the proposals are going to ‘strengthen democracy’, but that’s only really going to

The Eton Variant (The One Where Nothing Changes)

Don’t travel to Amber countries, even though there’s no ban. Don’t sit inside with others, even though indoor hospitality re-opened today. Don’t hug anyone outside of your household or bubble, even though you can do a ‘Boris hug’ (and that’s not code for, ‘Get your mistress pregnant/divorce another wife, etc’). We have a new variant

Voting For the Axe

It has taken a couple of days to begin to process just exactly why the average person votes for Boris Johnson and the Conservative Party. It is something of a conundrum for us because we Plague Islanders know just how morally bankrupt, greedy, self-serving, classist and callous he and the party are. Read any of

Boris Buys Curtains Whilst The People Die

Do you know what I would find amazing and some kind of poetic justice? If the Rt.Dishonourable Alexander Boris de Pfeffel Johnson was kicked out of office/forced to resign due to the what is coming to be known as the ‘Cash for Curtains’ scandal; that he and Symonds never get to stay long enough to

… And You Will Know Us by the Trail of the Dead

It has been reported today that our truth-twisting, shape-shifting, lying, corrupt bastard of a PM said in October 2020 that he would rather allow ‘bodies to pile high in their thousands’ (Independent) than impose another national lockdown. Let that sink in. Bodies piling high in their thousands. 150, 841 people in the UK have Covid-19

The Greed and Capitalism of the Rt. Dishonourable Boris Johnson

This week on Plague Island, we have been treated to a litany of Borisisms. The next phase of unlocking our most recent lockdown is upon us tomorrow (as the school’s Easter holidays approach, the ‘Rule of Six’ reapplies outside, and outdoor team sports restart). Our Beloved Leader would like us all to forget the past

Eye of the Storm

I’ll be totally honest: we have found it difficult to write a new note for Plague Island over the course of the past week. Usually, we will take in what has been reported in various news outlets, we talk about it together and then write. There is often an immediate flow to what we write;

Brave New World

‘One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution. One makes a revolution in order to establish the dictatorship.’ George Orwell, 1984, (1948) This Orwell quote could very easily relate to Brexit over the promises it made. It is beginning to increasingly look like when they said ‘Take back control’, what they

Boris Antoinette

At a time when we have: Increasing numbers of unemployment, More people queuing to use food banks, Working poverty is at an all time high, NHS staff are set to get just a 1% pay rise and,  Covid is still a big issue here, It has been reported that Our Beloved Leader and his fiancée