That Starmer fella...

It’s easy to think that the garden party is a bit of a non-story as people are down the pub right now, and have been over Christmas – entirely within the guidelines. But if you remember where we were back then, it really does show how outrageous the no10 position is right now. And it’s not just Johnson, it’s clearly a large number of senior figures at no10, including senior civil servants.

A few excerpts from Rory Kinnear’s piece in the Guardian today on the death of his sister on the day of BYOB:

…That evening [following my sister’s death from C19], as I walked alone, the streets were piercingly quiet. How sad it all is, I thought, how devastatingly sad…I walked past my neighbours’ houses; friends numbed by screentime and family dynamics, unsure how long this would all last, no access to society beyond their phones, windows open to mitigate against that lovely, lovely weather. I couldn’t help but feel grateful that my community was taking the deaths of people such as my sister as seriously and profoundly as I was. Their confinement spoke of a silent but wholehearted sympathy for families such as mine. They knew, they felt too, that we were all in it together.

Well, not all of us, it turns out. Not them.