Credit to @burntoakboy “The sinister cruelty of lockdown is laid...

Credit to @burntoakboy “The sinister cruelty of lockdown is laid bare in this grotesque vision of officials laughing over the hotel quarantine policy. A policy that caused so much heartache and hardship among often low-earning Brits whose only crime is that their families live overseas. A policy that prevented NHS workers and others from visiting sick relatives in India, Ethiopia and elsewhere. You couldn’t have asked for a better snapshot of the feudalistic authoritarianism that underpinned the ideology of lockdown. Civil servants working from their plush homes having a giggle about a policy that inflicted severe financial pain on the diverse working classes. A health secretary breaking his own guidelines to snog his mistress while sending snide WhatsApp messages about a policy that prevented poorer citizens from kissing the cheek of their dying mother. For me, this is the most important thing about the Lockdown Files – their revelation of just how morally cavalier and even inhuman the political elites can become when they are drunk on power, when they are liberated from democratic accountability to pursue whatever extreme policies they like.”

Me on the Lockdown Files. Link in bio to read the whole thing 👆
https://www.instagram.com/p/CpZ3dU5Le70/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=