Many are getting a really addled whiff of Humpty Dumpty off the latest revelations, that the prime minister himself attended a “mass gathering” in the Downing Street garden during the first lockdown. (And yet, given all the Downing Street parties which followed that Christmas, they somehow forgot it.) Yet again we have to ask: where were the multiple police officers who were stationed in and around the Downing Street complex when this BYOB party was happening? What so many hundreds of thousands of us will also never forget, alas, are our own darker stories: graveside funerals; Zoom funerals; funerals after which no gathering was allowed by law. Every single person at the Downing Street party would have known that story.

Source: The Guardian January 11, 2022 23:47 UTC