Lcokdown diary, day 26
Delighted to see that a record of "You'll never walk alone" is being released featuring Captain Tom Moore, a professional singer Michael Ball, and an NHS choir, recorded remotely from their homes, and has gone straight to the top of the charts.
The aim is to have it there for his hundredth birthday on Thursday and I bet it will happening.
At the time of posting he has now raised over £25 million pounds for NHS charities. You can find his JustGiving page here if you want to donate.
He has also been invited to be guest of honour - not sure if they're going to do that in person or remotely but I'm sure they will find a way to make it safe for him - at the official opening of a new NHS Nightingale hospital.
After spending a good chunk of today tidying the house I re-watched the third Jumanji film ("Jumanji - the next level" which is third counting the Robin Williams original) and I think I laughed even more than I did when I originally watched it in the cinema.
Then made the mistake of switching on social media.
The next election is not until 2024. There will be plenty of time to make a fair assessment of how well the government responded to this pandemic between the point when we actually have the data to make an informed judgement, and the date of that election.
All the people who are rushing to judgement in either direction give me the strong impression that they are more interested in proving what they have already decided, or in the case of the journalists, desperate to score points to boost their collapsing circulation figures, than to make a fair and accurately-informed assessment.
Most of the attacks on Boris Johnson make me more sympathetic towards him. Some of them irritate me sufficiently to reduce the weight I would give anything that the people making them ever say on any subject in the future to a significant degree.
The people who have something to say at the moment which is worth listening to, whether I agree with them or not, are the ones who are proposing a course of action or trying to do something to help. the fact that the nation has so much taken Captain Tom to its heart is because he epitomises that spirit.
The "gotcha" journalism, the attempts to score points, the attempt to present people who always seem to have different political views from the person scoring the points as incompetent or evil and to blame for everything - I don't think it's the right response now. And I will remember when the time does come for that assessment who had already rushed to judgement now and pay that much less attention to their views then, unless they have changed in the meantime.
I suspect the government which is going to face most questions, less from their own people who won't get a chance to ask them if they value their lives than from the rest of the world, will probably be the government of China.
But even that can wait until we have this firmly under control and have the data to ask the right questions.
Keep well.
Stay home. Protect the NHS. Save lives.
The aim is to have it there for his hundredth birthday on Thursday and I bet it will happening.
At the time of posting he has now raised over £25 million pounds for NHS charities. You can find his JustGiving page here if you want to donate.
He has also been invited to be guest of honour - not sure if they're going to do that in person or remotely but I'm sure they will find a way to make it safe for him - at the official opening of a new NHS Nightingale hospital.
After spending a good chunk of today tidying the house I re-watched the third Jumanji film ("Jumanji - the next level" which is third counting the Robin Williams original) and I think I laughed even more than I did when I originally watched it in the cinema.
Then made the mistake of switching on social media.
The next election is not until 2024. There will be plenty of time to make a fair assessment of how well the government responded to this pandemic between the point when we actually have the data to make an informed judgement, and the date of that election.
All the people who are rushing to judgement in either direction give me the strong impression that they are more interested in proving what they have already decided, or in the case of the journalists, desperate to score points to boost their collapsing circulation figures, than to make a fair and accurately-informed assessment.
Most of the attacks on Boris Johnson make me more sympathetic towards him. Some of them irritate me sufficiently to reduce the weight I would give anything that the people making them ever say on any subject in the future to a significant degree.
The people who have something to say at the moment which is worth listening to, whether I agree with them or not, are the ones who are proposing a course of action or trying to do something to help. the fact that the nation has so much taken Captain Tom to its heart is because he epitomises that spirit.
The "gotcha" journalism, the attempts to score points, the attempt to present people who always seem to have different political views from the person scoring the points as incompetent or evil and to blame for everything - I don't think it's the right response now. And I will remember when the time does come for that assessment who had already rushed to judgement now and pay that much less attention to their views then, unless they have changed in the meantime.
I suspect the government which is going to face most questions, less from their own people who won't get a chance to ask them if they value their lives than from the rest of the world, will probably be the government of China.
But even that can wait until we have this firmly under control and have the data to ask the right questions.
Keep well.
Stay home. Protect the NHS. Save lives.
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