love* in the time of plague (and by love* i mean brexit* and other dreary matters of uk politics)

Maybe Thursdays 8pm can be 'harangue Cummings' instead of clap for the NHS, until he's chained in the hold of a clipper and sent to the colonies

At which point we’d probably give him a parade

So many streets look like that in North London though, it could have been anywhere.

I couldn't find any others streets in N1 with those third storey arched windows though. Now I'm obsessed with them.

They’re getting absolutely rinsed by the C of E.

https://religionmediacentre.org.uk/news-comment/bishops-weigh-into-pm-lied-to-patronised-and-treated-as-mugs/

Lots of calls for booing at 7.55 on Thursday, before the NHS clap.

Here is the same incident from the other side from a neighbour of Cummings on TikTok pic.twitter.com/ioewTnxene

— Chris Stokel-Walker (@stokel) May 24, 2020

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would be quite happy to replace booing with bullets, but it's a start!

penny for calz' thoughts now the crybullies are weaponising autism

could you expand some more on that please Louis? I've completely missed whatever this is so far.

essentially the hard-right loons who think Corbyn is the world's worst racist are playing the 'gotcha' on the entire left/centre/etc because cummings drove to durham - get this - because his son is in fact autistic and his (dom's) mother is a SEN teacher whom the child was familiar with so actually the child would have been distressed if he hadn't done this and actually he's a hero and we the public are insensitive and probably the real bigots

as i say, penny for your thoughts

must be very hard for the poor kid, having to settle for a castle when all the sensory playgrounds are closed. it must be hard for his autistic son as well!

if one thing I've learned in the last 18 years of being a parent of an autistic kid it is that we are actually the biggest wankers going at the best of times!

hence a series like the a word getting continued rather than fucking incinerated

Sky's unerring knack of unearthing Spiked/Living Marxism type contrarian wankers strikes again, some woman on SkyNews boohooing about the media's witch hunt against Dominic Cummings.

Popped out for some chips earlier pic.twitter.com/qEqaJbd6e2

— Oliver Leith (@oliverleith) May 24, 2020

some good stuff out there today as well

It's a 'bubble story' apparently. I'd round these cunts up and leave them in a disused oil rig in the North Sea.

Education secretary Gavin Williamson said Dominic Cummings should not resign “because he has made it clear that he’s broken no rules and he’s broken no laws”.

The Cabinet minister sidestepped a question on whether Mr Cummings would have done the wrong thing if he had been a member of the public. He said:

I don’t have the details of all the various dates but the two dates that I do know very clearly is the June 1 when primary schools will start opening their schools and welcoming in pupils for the first time in over two months, and June 15 when secondary schools can start opening their doors and welcoming in years 10 and 12.

Gotta love the toadying. “He told me it was fine so I don’t need my own opinion.”

"I am blinking my opinion in Morse Code, so in fact I think you'll find I am the hero here"

Second wave here on time

NEW: Weston Super Mare General Hospital will temporarily stop accepting new patients, including into its A&E department, as of 8am today.

“a precautionary measure to maintain safety of staff & patients in response to the high number of patients with Coronavirus in the hospital”

— Rupert Evelyn (@rupertevelyn) May 25, 2020

Second wave here on time

NEW: Weston Super Mare General Hospital will temporarily stop accepting new patients, including into its A&E department, as of 8am today.

“a precautionary measure to maintain safety of staff & patients in response to the high number of patients with Coronavirus in the hospital”

— Rupert Evelyn (@rupertevelyn) May 25, 2020

Second wave here on time

NEW: Weston Super Mare General Hospital will temporarily stop accepting new patients, including into its A&E department, as of 8am today.

“a precautionary measure to maintain safety of staff & patients in response to the high number of patients with Coronavirus in the hospital”

— Rupert Evelyn (@rupertevelyn) May 25, 2020

oh ffs when Autism is trending if it is anything to do with tories or that sack of shit series on bbc1 it is safe to say it's bullshit.

The autism claim seems to be based off a rumour from something a punter misheard on LBC, it's not been claimed by anyone involved afaict

TL;DR

The allegations that Dominic Cummings has an autistic 4 year old are based on a misheard LBC clip. Nothing more. No autistic child, just a bastard who thinks the rules apply to you, and not him...

— Jamie (@jamiemcleod02) May 25, 2020

bit harsh on a 4 year old

LOL. Twitter, what would we do without it?

brb checking where Durham is on the bastardy map of England and Wales

https://rss.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/cms/asset/b3e6ac92-59fc-40f8-8266-b6871e51d74e/sign051-gra-0001-m.jpg

xxp
Give him another 5 years to start behaving like a Toryson at least

map checks out

Soft southern bastards.

this pretend-autism thing is some high-level zone-shit-flooding

Kindof interested in how the terrible genie that lockdown has let out of the bottle is solidarity. unlike austerity or immigration that worked to divide people into those attacked and those jealously guarding, the need to get people to undergo a rather harrowing collective experience (in spite of the extent to which it reproduces all the existing inequalities) has generated something of a collective understanding that is not immediately available to culture war tactics. it's interesting that this took a while to set in (at the outset there was so much stuff about 'bad' stockpiling etc.) but it maybe reveals the extent to which the petty jealousy that props up Tory rule is based so totally on the purging of any notion of collective experience.

anyway just a thought, not very optimistic about 'what this means' as it kindof suggests a very limited possibility that endless Tory rule will ever be over and that's not really how I like to think. maybe by dinnertime Cummings will be hanging from a barnsbury lamppost and we'll all join hands and sing the Internationale but I suspect not.

Its just disturbing to see laid bare somewhat the extent to which the crowd psychology of little England requires such detailed guarding if the possibility of commonly occupying the same world under similar conditions with unifying obligations and expectations. trust this cadre of fucking numbnuts not to understand the volatile possibility inherent, I suspect they won't make this mistake again so it's troubling to consider what this might mean for the next inevitable spike

The people I hear most pissed off about this Cummings story aren't leftists - who are pretty split on whether it's an issue worth pursuing - but people who tend towards the apolitical, seldom post about the govt, some might even vote tory for all I know. So I get the reservations as to what we actually expect to get out of this, but having the general populace furious at the tories is a good start imo.

Times Leader is calmly posting thrash as usual:

I think this Times leader is the result of many, many people in the senior ranks at that paper having taken lax notice of the lockdown rules. pic.twitter.com/M10RkwFRAf

— Mic Wright (@brokenbottleboy) May 25, 2020

well another way of thinking about it then is that Cummings is just being positioned as the culture war scapegoat position, standing in as the neighbor that has been out exercising as much as they want. while it would be poetic justice for the Tories to become victims of the curtain twitching they've encouraged it doesn't fill me with optimism for a brighter tomorrow

The South Bank might be fucked:

https://amp.theguardian.com/culture/2020/may/25/southbank-centre-warns-it-may-have-to-stay-closed-until-spring-2021?

Right now the story has weakened, not strenghtened, the curtain twitchers. General stance is well fuck this then there's no rules I'm just gonna do what the fuck I want, which is concerning for different reasons but yeah, the scolds shouting about too many people in the park have gone very silent.

I'd be more concerned about Cummings being positioned as a sacrifical lamb if there was the slightest indication that they're willing to sacrifice him.

but the thing about the curtain twitchers is that they are the embodiment of something I saw James butler say that the only thing the English believe in more than rules is that those rules apply to everyone but themselves. Cummings has made a mug of everyone who went along with the lockdown, however halfheartedly, and anyone who has been negatively affected by it in any way (seemingly everyone but me, guiltily I fn love it) I think this has the same 'energy' and it doesn't necessarily emanate from a feeling towards justice or equality

xps

It’s likely to be every arts venue. The South Bank centre isn’t going to put on anything before before Spring next year even if it had the money to do so. I can’t envisage any theatre or concert hall will. The entire sector will be bankrupt long before then without intervention.

You’d assume that this is not top of the list of government priorities but ‘culture’ plays a huge role in keeping London’s position as a financial hub strong, even if you don’t care about intrinsic value.

I don't think the curtain twitchers actually are that. From what I can tell they seem to be very content in following the guidelines, mostly because that kind of person has no joy in their life anyway so what would be the point for them to go to the park or visit friends when they could be having a much better time lecturing people online?

The energy I think for many people is one of personal betrayal and grief at not having been able to say goodbye to their loved ones - this doesn't translate into more abstract feelings of justice or equality necessiarly but it also doesn't need to, it is valid on its own.

I saw a link about theatres on their knees a few days ago. I'm guessing because of the way 'culture' works with finance that some bits of it will get bailed out xp

I think we're basically agreeing, there's something happening that is partly collective and partly about individualist injury (whether real trauma or pettiness about curtailment of 'freedom') and there's some dissonance between the two that seems to be playing out in a way that would have been hard to predict, at least for bbclaurak

Some of the more prominent venues might be able to get by with the help of some big donations from the extremely wealthy. Theatre in particular is absolutely central to London and its self-image so you would expect cheap money to be flowing in that direction reasonably quickly when things can get going again, but no one has the slightest clue when that is right now.

A lot of smaller venues might be fucked and of course there are huge consequences for performers and others whose livelihoods depend upon them.

Booming Plax posts today BTW. (xposts)

Some of the National Theatre plays have been doing mad numbers on YouTube in the space of a week so they can at least point to pent up demand (even if they are free).

Just realised it's two weeks since bloody conga VE day, so if we're going to see an infection spike from that it should be imminent

the black lace noose of death tightens...

the national theatre online program has been crap when I've checked it (I saw that rubbish Jane Eyre production at the time, total nonsense) but the schaubuhne have a daily showing and many have English subtitles definitely worth checking (haven't watched in a couple of weeks, presume they're still going on....) I'm already concerned that the next documenta will be cancelled, they've already delayed the Venice biennale until 2022