I’m not sure what amuses me more; holding the COP 28 global warming summit in Dubai, or having the UN Human Rights convention in Iran. It’s like having a Love and Peace weekend in Millwall. Or a Michelin Star Meeting in McDonalds. A Stamp Out Money Laundering campaign at the Etihad. A World Transparency Event in Wuhan.

But that’s all part of the ‘inclusivity’ which cynical people, like YOU, view as some form of -washing. Trying to sanitise your evil practices by holding a meeting which condemns them. Carbon-washing by the UAE, morality-washing by the nation which murders young women for failing to tie a head scarf in the right place. Though the United Nations lost the plot many decades ago and, hopefully, will soon just become so un-funded that it will simply disappear up its own ridiculously prejudiced and biased brand of international insanity and hypocrisy.

Well that’s sorted the UN out.

Over here we have our own brand of stupidity. It’s called ‘the Covid Inquiry’ and is being held in a courtroom right near you! And is possibly the only venue around which produces more expletives per hundred words than I do. Because, as we all know, you can’t govern without profanity and when you’re governing during a pandemic, it all goes right through the fucking roof.

We’re all clever after the event. ‘Monday morning quaterbacking’ is never a good position to adopt. Basically, they’re paying a dozen top lawyers to ask one question: knowing what you know now, would you have done what you did then?

The answer to which is: whatever answer I give now, will it change what happened then?

What we already knew:
Boris Johnson is a tosser. Not news. But also, possibly, the absolutely worst kind of tosser to be in charge during a national disaster.
Dominic Cummings was and is a very dangerous, toxic and destructive person to have around, let alone to have in almost total power over events.
Matt Hancock is a hapless, hopeless lightweight, fit only for grabbing bums and eating slugs in jungles.
And the overriding fact that whatever course of action occurred in the pandemic was going to be ‘wrong’. It was wrong then and, in hindsight, it’s even more wrong.

Because there was no ‘right’. And if there was, we have no idea of knowing how ‘right’ it would have been. And is ‘right’ just judged in protecting from deaths? Or is ‘right’ also considering the economy and the mental health of the entire nation but especially the kids?

So why bother. The ridiculous cost of the inquiry could fund a hospital for a year. Could pay for 1000 one-way flights to Rwanda. Could buy Spurs another midfielder until Madison is fit again.

Happy Saturday

A xxxx