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01/03/21 - 31/03/21
01/03/2021
Gordon Elliott’s
horrific dead horse photo
shocks the racing world.
Top trainer poses
on corpse while taking phone call.
Sport in disrepute.
Billionaire’s piss-take:
Chris Hohn determines worth with
record salary.
Labour indicates
it would back gradual rise in
corporation tax.
Sunak’s budget fails
to address a decade of
negligence says Dodds.
Former President
of France, Sarkozy, sentenced
on corruption charge.
Female reporter
abused for sports coverage
in sexist mob-cry.
01/02/21
Sexual harassment,
Gas-lighting: calls for Cuomo
to resign office.
02/03/21
His grip over the
rank and file, makes Trump still a
significant threat.
Hostile take-over
yet still possible after
failed impeachment trial.
Fears that a quarter
of grass-roots sports clubs will not
survive to return.
Women in the home:
generational role-back
on social freedoms.
Discrimination
surge against pregnant women
and mothers at work.
04/03/21
Government settles
to stop bully Patel from
facing tribunal.
04/03/21
Press ramps up interest
in the week before ‘spill-all’
Royal interview.
Proposed 1 percent
pay rise for NHS staff
branded pitiful.
05/03/21
How many nurses
salaries to decorate
number 10 (again)?
Pay offer looks like
Tory contempt for Covid
NHS heroes.
Below inflation,
real-term pay cuts continue
for public sector.
Nominal ban for
ethically unfit, award
winning horse trainer.
In Reception class
visit photo, Johnson plays
with his poster paints.
05/03/21
Labour candidacy
row for next Liverpool Mayor
branded a ‘Shit-Show’.
Flying ship mirage
spotted off Cornish coast-line
captured on camera.
06/03/21
Draft bill to revoke
fixed term parliament plays to
Boris Johnson’s hand.
A career based on
ethical plasticity
and boosterism.
Contempt for the rules,
cavalier with convention,
trust him with nothing.
DfE award
new contract to firm behind
school meals fiasco.
Rapid tests planned for
use in schools, ‘very likely’
to give false readings.
07/03/21
Woken by the cat
strutting the runway of my
snoozing, supine form.
09/03/21
Bullying row, a
cynical bid to take the
heat off Prince Andrew?
Epstein brought in girl
like a takeaway supper:
Air Mailed consumption.
Flown in to New York
to service Royalty in
Epstein’s private home.
Queen of Interview:
Oprah the real winner, as
critics’ praise pours in.
10/03/21
In the Queen’s response,
‘recollections may vary’
from those of Duchess.
Public pulpits for
perennial misanthropes
need further censure.
Even Murdock said
he had bigger balls than brains.
His fall is no shock.
Farewell, good riddance.
Noughties culture nasty-man
finally walked out.
End of the road for
the man who never knew when
to stop. Piers Morgan.
10/03/21
Ministers asked to
justify 20 billion
spent on test and trace.
Committee chair states
that the public purse was used
as an ATM.
No evidence that
test and trace scheme cut Covid
infection levels.
Sino-British ties
further strained, as China seeks
to veto free press.
10/03/21
Case develops as
Met Officer arrested
in hunt for Sarah.
11/03/21
Walking Britain’s streets
should not be dependent on
light and company.
Legislate to make
misogyny a hate crime.
Lords’ voting next week.
Director resigns
over statement denying
racism in press.
13/03/21
Tonight, I shall walk
at six to keep vigil for
Sarah Everard.
16/03/21
Set alarm to steal
quiet half an hour in peace.
Kids hear and follow.
I: writer, critic
student, academic; I:
PA, cleaner, cook.
17/03/21
Covid catch-up fund
not reaching disadvantaged
pupils report finds.
Bolivia’s ex-
president arrested, as
power changes sides.
Jeanine Áñez charged
with abuses of power
during year-long reign.
17/03/21
Government deflects
calls for public enquiry
into pandemic.
Public support for
Covid enquiry, twice that
of opposition.
Tory culture war
gets ever more absurd, as
object trumps subject.
Longer sentences
for attacking statues than
attacking women.
18/03/21
Gin delivery
received in my dressing gown.
How very lockdown.
19/03/21
Plastic particles
pass from mother to foetus,
lab rat studies show.
Accumulated
microplastics found inside
all human organs.
Pollutants blamed for
plummeting sperm counts, calling
time on human life.
Chemicals causing
reproductive crisis, now
found in everything.
19/03/21
Tutoring scheme for
England throws more money at
the private sector.
20/03/21
UK furlough scheme
pays out millions to foreign
States and tax exiles.
Growing pressure, as
public figures join call for
Covid enquiry.
Johnson’s resistance
seems all the more reason, to
see what else they’ve done.
20/03/21
Calls for National
Strategy on sexism
and abuse in schools.
Plain clothed Police in
Britain’s bars and clubs won’t make
women feel safer.
20/03/21
Saturday morning:
streamed film; online newspaper;
tangible cuddles.
21/03/21
Thornton’s Chocolatier:
the latest in a long line
of slow retail deaths.
Tory answer to
Watchdog scrutiny: strip them
of their powers then.
Holidays abroad,
in the near future, looking
ever less likely.
Rising cases and
third wave lockdowns in many
EU neighbour States.
22/03/21
With just three wishes,
what would you do? And would I
still know you as you?
Come to me Cali,
Calliope come; at this late,
late hour I need you.
The muse returns, but
sulking: she wants to write books,
I just do haikus.
The thump, thump of feet,
a tractor, twittering birds –
time alone to think.
23/03/21
Travel ban exempt -
those with other properties
they wish to visit.
Stanley Johnson clause:
accept curbs to your freedom,
unless you are rich.
Third wave in EU
gains momentum and threatens
our recovery.
23/03/21
The school yard: a sea
of bodies, weaving madly
to keep three paces.
24/03/21
Exploring further,
my corner of the world, as
the days grow warmer.
25/03/21
That time before, when
we blew on birthday cakes, shook
hands, stood side-by-side.
27/03/21
UK companies
export trade left in tatters
after Hard Brexit.
Outdoor Easter planned,
as gazebo sales soar for
garden gatherings.
Container vessel
wedged in Suez Canal, may
take weeks to dislodge.
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Written by Sally Jones