Someone I know died of COVID today. I find it a bit insulting when people tell me I have to be positive about the UK's strategy. In my view it has been an unmitigated disaster that has cost lives and continues to endanger people mentally and physically. I feel a duty to protest.

There is nothing beneficial for mental health about accepting toxic things. There is no comfort in going along with the powers that be when those powers are messing up something so important. Awareness, goes the mantra, is the root to recovery. To be aware, here, is to be angry.

So I am low on positive aphorisms at the mo, even as I have genuinely never had more faith in the goodness of people. But please do unfollow me if you don't share my frustrations and want something else from me.