The Post-Apocalyptic World of Dominic Cummings

The world continues on its merry way. We’ve been watching our handsome baby boy grow every day and there’s nothing quite like seeing him smiling at you first thing in the morning because you’re literally the best thing he’s ever seen. The poor thing. It’s one thing to care about your children, and another entirely to be selfish and put more at risk the way this Dominic Cummings chap has done. I’ve never been much of a fan, ever since I heard he’d had someone sacked and escorted out of the building with a police officer. That smacks too much of the kind of totalitarian bullshit that I saw back in Syria, and to see it used in England hits a raw nerve. But, I digress.

The fact is, I’m watching the news with a sense of wonder and disgust. Never before have I seen politicians so shameless as they are today. Mass protests and scandals that would have brought down entire governments in the past now come and go with almost no change. And the scary thing is that there are people who mistake this form of shamelessness for resilience. This populist, anti-intellectual fad that has swept the globe from Brazil to Moscow will create a world similar to the one I created in Damaskopolis, with apparatchiks like Cummings scheming away and pretending they’re smarter than everybody while buffoonish leaders blab away in front of the cameras and pretend they know what they are doing. And I guess that’s my queue to get back to writing and put all this bad news to the side for now. Ping me if Dominic Cummings is ever fired.