The fact that Dominic Cummings isn't currently the UK media's most sought-after political figure in history, tells you everything you need to know about their integrity.

Every senior political journalist in the country has his mobile number.

This is a man who was effectivelty in charge of the government's Covid-19 response and whose strategy meant that the advice of the WHO was openly contradicted and ignored.

It also emerged that he had persuaded the government to accept a death toll of up to 750k (cont...)

After following his advice, in specifically rejecting the lessons learned from how the outbreak had affected other countries, not only have unknown thousands of people become infected, who would not otherwise have been, but his own boss has ended up in intensive care. (cont...)

He was last seen in public, *literally running from the back door of Downing Street*, after hearing that the man he'd been advising about how to play down the seriousness of the outbreak had himself been stricken by the virus. (cont...)

The full story of this saga will be far more shocking and disgraceful than we already know, but surely there must be questions to answer about just how cosy the media's relationship with Cummings had become.

The confused and contradictory messaging in the first few weeks seems to have been due, in large part, to the fact that the media allowed Cummings to try out policy ideas, via anonymous briefings, which could later be officially disowned, once reaction had been gauged. (cont...)

The media knowingly enabled this, and continued to do so, despite being called out on it, repeatedly.

Now, as the whole, terrible scale of the disaster emerges, the inescapable suspicion must be that the collusion continues, becoming a cover-up of epic proportions.