And so this is Friday and what have we learned?
The hospitals are alive with the sounds of dogging, and once more our Beautiful Land of Horny Hobbits has captured the lurid imagination of the world for a moment. Ah there it is, the timeless lesson for capturing people’s attention: add a bit of sex! Be shameless! Like, put it right there up front. Like, right at the beginning of your newsletter.
The poor hospitals have been all over the news this week, reporters asking them what kind of clown show they think they’re running. Not to be a scratched record but come on. Why were there all the questions about the way Middlemore has been responding to infected patients and not the larger question of what it might tell us about the virus circulating undetected in the community?
