Sock Puppets & Socialites

The art of distraction

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Let’s say you play a game of Monopoly where the banker is not only given all the money but get’s to control the Chance card stack. When a favoured player (let’s call him Dominic Cummings) gets a “Go to Jail” card, the banker immediately swaps it for a “Move directly to Go” card. Everyone else gets to play by the cards as they are stacked. You know you are going to get screwed again next time because it’s the only game in town. I’m not that concerned with the banker or the favoured player but with the rest of players who are focused on the Chance stack and the top hat.

Everyone is now partying over Trump being thrown out of the White House and Dominic Cummings being thrown out of Number 10. But neither gives me any satisfaction because I feel no sense of justice or wrongs being righted. If Cummings had gone because the government had collapsed or Trump had gone because democracy had won, I’d feel different. However it feels like the UK’s arch criminal has walked out at a time that suited him and the Orange buffoon is being ousted only because he was terrible, not because we have anything better.

The law of precedent

Let’s face it, Boris Johnson played us. He knew that if he stuck it out for 3 weeks the media would move on to another story, we’d have better things to concern…