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Jason Miles LOCKDOWN

Predictably, I have nothing to write about apart from Bloody Coronavirus. I’ll try to squeeze some other stuff out, but it’ll be contextualised by the Only thing that Happened In 2020 I’m afraid.

So here goes…

Well it looks like we’re coming out of lockdown, then. In fact by the time you read this (normally a few weeks after I’ve had to down six pints and a bottle of red wine to suddenly become creative and/or deliberately offensive), the United Kingdom will probably be in a state of absolute euphoria and the ol’ dastardly Coronavirus will have been sent packing and we’ll have other, more fun things to look forward to.*

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