Madness this week: Keir and Covid, sex bans, Phillip Schofield and Laurence Fox

    The insanity of the week commencing 12 October 2020.

Why exactly are we postponing cases again?

 

This week, they were at it again: Whitty, Vallance, Hancock and Johnson. Even Van-Tam was wheeled out to spell out our impending doom, before the announcement of a 3-tier system and yet more exasperating rules.

The patterns were familiar: the stern graphs, the predictions of death at unprecedented levels, and the warnings that the NHS will fall over again. Except, of course, that we’ve been here before, time and time again.

By now, we should be seeing 50,000 cases per day, Whitty and Vallance told us. We are mercifully seeing under 20,000. The NHS, having had 8 months to prepare, ought to be able to cope with this. IF it can’t, then it’s about as hopeless as its car crash of an app.

We know that lockdowns simply kick the epidemic further down the road. We are not preventing it, but simply postponing it.

And the question that nobody is asking is why! IF it is simply to fool ourselves that we can stop the epidemic from following an inevitable trajectory, then by pushing more infections into winter, we will pay a high price for this folly.

 

Labour is the party of Lockdown

 

Sit down for a shocker! Sir Keir Starmer finally decided to have an opinion. Depressingly, he has positioned Labour as the lockdown party, angling for what is absurdly being called a ‘circuit breaker’ but which is another ruinous national lockdown to anyone who has not been completely hoodwinked by linguistic jiggery-pokery.

This is, of course, for no other reason than the fact that polls suggest that tighter restrictions are what the British people largely support. Sadly, however, it’s likely to embolden the blinkered government, and weaken the resolve of Labour leaders in the beleaguered north, who know just how devastating the economic impact is.

When the case numbers, bolstered by mass testing, inevitably show that the tier system was a waste of time, we all know what’s coming next.

 

The bonking ban is truly bonkers

 

A wise person once observed that all the fun went out of homosexuality when they made it legal. I thought about that when I saw the ban on indoor mixing for over half the population being heralded by some as the re-introduction of the sex ban.

Oh get real! An element of the elicit has always added extra frisson to the erotic encounter – if knowing it will piss off Matt Hancock does anything other than get you even more in the mood, you’ve got real problems.

 

Someone please tell Phillip Schofield that not everything is about him!

 

It feels like an age has passed since Phillip Schofield announced that he is gay, but the ‘This Morning’ star is still banging on about it.

Surprise surprise! He’s written a book! This means the whole boring business is dredged up again, including tales of how he was forced to hide his true self for years and would run from the studio to be sick.

I should think his wife and daughters have suffered far worse anguish, so I’ll be saving my sympathy for them. Please, Phil, cut it out man!

 

Laurence Fox’s war on woke is a joke

 

Actor-Turned-Anti-woke Crusader Laurence Fox was embroiled in controversy again this week, after he threatened to take the left-wing commentator Yasmin Alibhai-Brown to court after she called him a “racist bully” on the Jeremy Vine show.

That is, of course, an opinion, and Fox must surely have known that any debate with Yasmin Alibhai-Brown on such matters would have ended this way – she has form. What’s more, he insists on using the ‘All Lives Matter’ slogan, which is often used to shut down discussion about the particular experiences of ethnic minorities.

Before taking the moral high ground and calling in the lawyers, however, Mr Fox might consider whether he is better off spending his newly formed political party’s £5 million fund defending himself, given the increasing regularity with which he is making some exceptionally stupid errors of judgement, amongst which, baselessly labelling a number of his critics paedophiles on Twitter, including the deputy chair of LGBT charity Stonewall.

Many would say paedophilia is no joking matter. But then, it’s a bit of a joke that Laurence Fox thinks he can make much political traction with a war on wokeness in the middle of a pandemic, when democracy and liberty itself is under assault.