what no press conference in the rose garden? (the curse of friday the 13th)

he had so much more still to give (in terms of creative destruction). a nation mourns. on the plus side he'll be able to do the things he couldn't do in office like get an eye test and spend more time with his wife's family (no wait he's done those already)).

dominic cummings has fallen. horsemouth rejoices (in a way). dominic is the only one of the tories horsemouth would trust to get his nose out of the trough for long enough to have a political idea - and that idea was to trade of the dissatisfaction of the politically unrepresented. he took them from out of the grasp of labour and the brexit party and ukip and gave them to the conservatives. 

from now on horsemouth will celebrate every  friday 13th as dominic cummings day. caution. there can be more than one a year. 

for the tories covid arrived and blew them off course and after that everything they needed to do was contrary to their natures. 

and in a way horsemouth doesn't rejoice. there was little to cummings beyond quack pareto style management nostrums but at least he wanted government that could deliver (and wouldn't that have been useful in the pandemic children but similarly where are the results for the money handed over?). he leaves behind a downing street thoroughly seeded with the dragon's teeth children of the leave campaign (will they dig in for the short walk through the cabinet office?). 

ultimately his ship comes to grief on the hidden rocks of the deep state on its inability to do anything except line its own pockets (and spy on militant vegetarians and grieving parents).

dialectically it gives the red wall some power when they either defect back from the tories or seal the deal, but there are no guarantees it won't sabotage itself. it pushes scotland towards the fools errand of independence. and then there's the legacy project - brexit. 

my but january will be harsh wake up (you will hear horsemouth saying 'horsemouth told you so'.)

horsemouth is back from sunny mile end and filmshow 13th. he thanks suke (and enza) for an excellent evening. he has the final cut of the fall of the house of fitzgerald on his laptop. in a minute he will watch it again but he pronounces himself pleased with it. soon it will be shared online and horsemouth will invite you all to see it. there will be no launch party (with actual people) until things have calmed down.

horsemouth adopts the howard hughes method of disease control. but then how can you go to an evening in mile end with food, drink and dancing horsemouth? because horsemouth hasn't done that in months horsemouth replies (er. since the last time him, enza and suke were together). horsemouth is a utilitarian not an absolutist. to be honest he's more worried about the railway journey across town and the lab booking on friday (sanctioned under lockdown under the double heading of 'work' and 'education').  this strikes him as objectively a greater risk.