I had a lot of sympathy for Dominic Cummings when this started -he could’ve said he panicked, he got it wrong, he’s sorry, he considered resigning. Everything he’s done since this story broke - the misleading first statement, flimsy arguments, editing the blog, it’s all backfired

He says his mind was on other, bigger decisions, but if he was making those decisions with the same seeming lack of intelligence (if we take what he says at face value, putting your kid in that car was ) then I’m not sure anyone would want him making those decisions anyway?

His is a bad lot: the press scrum is ugly, neighbours bullying him are nasty, his wife getting ill is scary, but the mismanagement of this situation does itself feel analogous to the wider mismanagement of this pandemic, which - lets be clear here - the U.K. has handled badly.

I’ve thought the lockdown was only the right approach until we flattened the peak, then we should’ve gone down the Swedish line of trusting people to socially distanced while reopening the economy. I think the rules have been badly designed & implemented, I don’t agree with them,

An architect of those rules, who demands they are followed, and forces huge personal sacrifices on others, must follow them. Everything else is a huge contorted mess of pitiful nonsense. Defending it now, the government is making the mistake of the sunk costs fallacy.