Back in 2003, when I was receiving chemotherapy, all my hair fell out. Later a young lady, who was cutting my newly grown locks, asked, “What, all of it? … Even down there?” My eye was caught this week by a thread on Twitter requesting forcibly that the Prime Minister brush his hair before appearing in public.
I wonder, tho, if it isn’t deliberate. My six-year-old grandson was given a magic set by Father Christmas. He’s beginning to master some of the tricks, but there are two skills which need a lot of practice. One is “palming”, or hiding an object from the audience’s view, (but his hands are still small), the other, misdirection, where the audience’s attention is deliberately focused away from the heart of the trick. In a small way, is the PM’s fluster and bluster, and Wurzel Gummidge appearance a misdirection away from his and his government’s misrule?
Of course, this is nothing compared with the misdirection being employed by HM Government, as all the confusion of the pandemic and lockdown distracts us from the rapidly approaching cliff edge of 30 june, and the refusal of the government to consider an extension to the “Implementation” of BrExit.
Nico
[This article was first broadcast in Sixteen Million Rising, Episode 64, “Look over there!”, on 2020-06-21.]
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