Alert!

Here are some things I’ve become alert to:

• If you’re not angry, you’re not paying attention.

• Boris Johnson is a terrible Prime Minister, however history might paint him

• Confused, metaphor heavy messages create great memes.

• The government did leak everything to the press in advance of the statement.

• They never wanted construction and manufacture to stop in the first place.

• They only said one exercise outside at first because everyone got angry.

• The government have a plan to ease the economy back without killing too many people. 

• Their plan is clear in their own minds but isn’t communicated effectively.

•  Giving people a week to decide what they wanted to hear means they won’t have heard the message, so it seems confused.

• People will still be angry

• Nicola Sturgeon has taken as long to read The Mirror & the Light as I have (I know she’s been busy).

• They didn’t travel out of their own town when there was the Plague in Tudor times, if they didn’t have to.

• The King didn’t have to, so he survived.

• Medicine hasn’t moved on as much as we’d like to think since Henry the Eighth.

• Staggering schools reopening will be a nightmare for already stressed headteachers (who have worked through all their holidays)

• Coming out of lockdown was always going to be harder than going in. Any nuanced approach is going to be impossible to police. It’s going to take personal responsibility.

• If you give someone a confused map and they get lost then you have to question whether that is their fault.

• Living through history is blooming exhausting. Pass the caffeine, I’m trying to stay alert.