7th June 2020

Last night we enjoyed a bizarre game of Trivial Pursuit with friends via Zoom. Each couple had their own set on the table, and moved each other’s tokens accordingly across the ether. Lockdown madness. Yesterday, in Normandy, the usual crowds and bunting commemorations were eerily absent as a lone French piper reminded us of that day in ‘44 when Operation Overlord began the D-D landings. Elsewhere crowds massed in Washington and London in protest at the killing of a black man, totally ignoring social distancing rules, thereby putting hundreds of people most at risk of dying from the virus in real danger. And all the while, the country complicit in causing the global pandemic in the first place remains largely uncriticised by world organisations. Did the virus originate in that Wuhan market or via an incompetent Wuhan virus lab? Why hasn’t the UN brought a court case? It should be getting wall-to-wall news coverage. The whole world’s gone mad.