1/ On Cummings, I think there are 2 stories. The first - a senior advisor might have broken lockdown guidance. If true (it still seems slightly unclear), that is obviously something people are irritated by. It& #39;s valid to be angered by that and want questions answered, etc.

2/The less reported Cummings story is not that he might have breached the guidance, but that large parts of the media/political class (who hate his guts politically), have seized on what were essentially rumours (some false, e.g. & #39;second trip to Durham& #39;), to whip up mob outrage.

3/At least 1 senior MP, and many commentators, *praised* roaming mobs of furious people for gathering outside a man& #39;s family house, partly on the basis of seemingly FALSE stories (E.g., & #39;second trip to Durham& #39; that appears never to have happened). The media spread these stories.

It seems Cummings wasn& #39;t & #39;investigated by police& #39; as claimed and didn& #39;t & #39;make a second trip to Durham& #39; (headline story in anti-Cummings papers). Angry people literally took to the streets partly on the basis of these falsehoods, and these ppl were *praised* by an MP/ commentators

5/This isn& #39;t to say that there aren& #39;t many people who are genuinely fed up with perceived hypocrisy by Cummings. That seems fair to me (if there was any, still find it hard to be sure). But there& #39;s no doubt this story has been weaponised in a shameful way for ideological reasons