so horsemouth found an interview with jacqueline rose on albert camus' the plague. people were turning to the book for comfort during the pandemic, she argues. they were certainly buying it in great numbers. horsemouth was left with the desire to read some simone weill. jacqueline rose read it for her french A level.
he also watched danny dorling discussing the changes in the UK since the 1970ies (essentially peak equality). from whence the title of this post. meanwhile the cap on bankers' bonuses has been lifted.
horsemouth was waiting for news on the peter bone vote. it looked for a while as if the beeb had given him a back door out. but no.
result! he's suspended. there will be a recall petition!
wellingborough you know what you have to do! vote the f***er out. he had an 18,540 majority at the 2019 election (but as we know these are the kind of figures that can now be overturned).
horsemouth is up. it's a rainy grey morning with little to recommend it.
back in october 2020 horsemouth thought that if the death toll due to covid passed 100,000 it would trigger some kind of a change in government - deaths with COVID-19 on the death certificate? 195,225 as of friday 22nd september 2023.
of course the 'real' number of deaths due to covid is more likely given by the excess deaths - but this would include the increased number of people who died because of treatment backlogs. ultimately it all depends whether you attribute these deaths to covid or due to the lockdown - on whether you think the lockdown was correct and necessary or whether you think it was a big mistake and unnecessary. people cite sweden as their counter example to lockdown - but swedes aren't brits. given the same stimulus they wouldn't necessarily give the same response.
what will the day hold? horsemouth does not know.
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