LOOKING BACK IN ANGER - WHERE WE WERE A YEAR AGO AND WHERE WE ARE NOW

The latest figures from the ONS are at the end of this article. Please do have a look.

Here is the blogpost I published on 7 January 2021:

'THIS PRIME MINISTER LED US INTO THE WORLD OF HERD IMMUNITY - WE ARE NEARING 100,000 DEATHS

 The responsibility for our carnage lies primarily with the prime minister and his special advisor - Johnson and Cummings - who made the wrong decisions back in February last year. Their actions and inactions then are part of the sequence of neoliberal Tory misgovernment that followed. 

I have spent my lockdown charting this tragedy in Dying to Know and am now back on the familiar path of finding a literary agent/ publisher. My book is well worth reading. I am the historian by academic training and I have become a fledgling scientist and economist for the purposes of my pandemic tale.

I hope you find this BLOGPOST worthwhile. It would help my path to publication for my book 'Dying to Know' if you would press the Follow button at the top of the blog post (on a full screen) - 29 followers to date. Thank you. 

 

Here is the latest twist in this sordid story, courtesy of SKWAWKBOX today:

'Former Tory MP Matthew Parris appears on Sky to exonerate catastrophic PM - while MP Lucy Allan quietly deletes 'like' of tweet calling for abolition of NHS

'Operation Absolve Boris' has begun. The Conservative party, which can never quite disguise its contempt for the Labour-founded NHS, has sloughed off even more of the facade to start its campaign to water the idea in the public consciousness that the blame for Boris Johnson's appalling and frankly murderous handling of the pandemic crisis rests with the NHS, not the Bullingdon boy.

Johnson's 'battle' with the pandemic - with grateful acknowledgements to Martin Rowson, cartoonist at the Guardian

Former Tory MP Matthew Parris was on Sky News this morning (thanks, reader and Labour activist Val Colvin for the pointer) - and Parris not only suggested that the latest scandal of slow vaccine roll-out was the NHS's fault, he 'jumped the shark' and suggested that he

LOUISE DONOVAN AND HER TEXTILE ART EXHIBITION AT THE CRYPT GALLERY IN NOVEMBER 2021 - PART THREE

 In this final part of the three-part series, I want to focus on the pieces of textile art in the exhibition that were produced between December 2018 and January 2020 - Louise's creative work between the ending of her first exhibition at the Crypt (November 2018) and the arrival of the coronavirus (February 2020).

Press this link here for access to the first part in the series.

And press the link here for access to the second part.

Louise Donovan in Hora, Patmos - 2018 

 

There were seven works in the show that were completed in these thirteen months. Here they are, in no particular order: 

                                                          TRIBUTE TO MONDRIAN

 

One of the works in Louise's Crypt exhibition in 2018 was 'My Mondrian Moment'. Louise was first introduced to the work of Mondrian in a serious way back in 2010 when Louise made the long

LOUISE DONOVAN AND HER TEXTILE ART EXHIBITION AT THE CRYPT GALLERY IN NOVEMBER 2021 - PART TWO

In this second blogpost in the series, the focus is on 'Interconnections' - for Louise one of the most important pieces in the show. Press here for the link to the first blogpost, published last week.

'Interconnections' - Louise Donovan (2021)

And here is the guide (with some illustrative fleshing out!)

Interconnections

 

Silver grey – with fifteen face masks

With movement restricted and friends unseen, Zoom became an important part of my life at times. This has been a period to reflect on who and what is important in my life – and what better vehicle

STARMER ATTACKS JOHNSON FOR LYING - AT LAST - BUT OPEN TO SEE THE POT CALLING THE KETTLE BLACK

 Keir Starmer attacked Boris Johnson's honesty and trustworthiness in PMQs today, saying Johnson's pledges 'aren't worth the manifesto paper they're written on'.

Starmer was right: whether on the pensions triple lock, the test and trace disaster or anything else, 'Bozo' is a con artist.

I have spent many hours blog-posting on Boris Johnson and the horror-show he has orchestrated in the UK since he became PM. I have explored his inadequacies from so many different perspectives. The man is toxic and deserves to face charges for his malfeasance in public office. Here is a link to the page on my website which is well worth exploring:

http://www.robdonovan-author.co.uk/TheRoadToJustice.html

Such a brilliant cartoon insight

Tragically for the nation, so is Keir Starmer. He has trampled over democratic rights in order to remove the threat of socialism within the Labour Party. In much the same way as Johnson eliminated any threat from