The government put my friend in the hospital.

I have been a devoted Tory my whole life and, now having renounced that allegiance, I feel “safe” admitting to it. The infobahn is not the natural habitat of the Conservative. So I trust that your embrace will be warm as I turn coats. Though the evidence is somewhat contrary.

This past year, we have been inundated with a novel lexicon - one whose terms are familiar to our ears but shrill with the pitch of catastrophising re-contextualisation. Lockdown. Tiers. Isolation. What once principally applied to sci-fi/horror flicks, wedding cakes and insufferable wallflowers, respectively, is now a-washing through our minds with doomy din.

To be ever vigilant of the capricious dictates of our beleaguered overlords is to drive oneself insane. It has produced a virulent monomania that ri ...