Since March 2020. I've kept every rule. Not one single breach. I've been called a mask rebel, an anti-masker and have been accused (by a moderator!) of being in bed with anti-vaxxers. I've had all three jabs and my flu jab and I haven't broken a single rule, not once. My Christmas was ruined last year by a last-minute edict from a man who, at that very time, was attending and sanctioning illegal parties on his watch, on his patch. Millions of people were affected worse than I was, to boot. And now he's lying in his teeth about all that, and his erstwhile press secretary was laughing at us.

Well I feel so great about that. Really good. I love a man who does Machiavellian better than Machiavelli himself.

John Crace on the Guardian website today is a spiffing good read.