Reading the stuff coming out of the UK regarding the unethical behaviour of a number of functionaries of the current government, including the man at the top, is depressing. At one time I might have thought deeply depressing but I'm too old and too knowing to get as bothered as all that.
What was it that made it so difficult for these people to follow their own guidelines on social behaviour in the pandemic raging around them? And just how many parties did they feel they were entitled to attend? It's the triviality of it all that's so striking. The humour of John Crace's coruscating sketch of recent events made me feel a bit better on first reading, then thinking about the fact it needed to be written, a whole lot worse.
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