Today

These buggers cannot actually run a country.

They can run a campaign, they can promise for tomorrow, they can lie well, very well. But now we see that having failed to prevent No Deal (assuming they want to) and failed to contain the spread of Covid, they now fail thousands of students, who find their projected marks downgraded because rather than exams, their results were gauged by an algorithm which uses factors like whether the student is at an inner city school or a private one. The private one's a bonus, the state one's a minus; the result is that most of the students discriminated against are from what we would call 'ordinary' backgrounds. And of course, among these, students at schools in deprived areas suffer most of all. The mayor of Manchester, Andy Burnham calls it 'levelling down' and so it is.

It's probably a shambolic mistake but it does tie rather into the interesting views held by Dominic Cummings father in law (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OWwxiiuIv_A&t=29s) as well as Cummings' interest in eugenics, and his dubious choice of advisors with a background in this matter (https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2020/feb/19/sabisky-row-dominic-cummings-criticised-over-designer-babies-post).

Cummings' interest was in creating babies with higher IQs rather than the idiot Baronet's idea that the people at the top are there because they are the best/have the best genes, which just makes me want to go all Plainview and throw bowling balls at him yelling 'I drink your milkshake!'

The thing is, we don't, because we are all too polite. He's standing in some cellar waffling on about good 'puppies,' when perhaps what he really needs is a red wine shampoo and to be flung to the floor with a momentary knee on his neck. How would his superior genes help him then?

I am not always nice.


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Also today, the Emma Readathon. My part in a couple of chapters is small but juicy, but I suddenly don't feel like doing it. Can't explain why, just real fatigue. I'm sure it'll be OK.