For the rapidly unravelling winter caretaker of Downing Street, it has been another paranoia-inducing few days. What with leaked pictures and leaked videos and leaked accounts of various gatherings, we have to ask: is there any party this lot weren’t at? And there’s Dominic Cummings behind a palm, tucking away another vat of wine while considering himself better than all this. As with the final image of The Shining, the picture of the “business meeting” in the Downing Street garden during lockdown last year does rather make you question everything that has gone before. Have they finally now caught on that careless cheese and wine costs lives?

Source: The Guardian December 21, 2021 22:19 UTC