The Pathetic Fallacy

This week: Rishi Sunak is dead, he just doesn’t know it yet; and a brief tour of the Byzantine Empire.

In the House of Henry Scampi this week, we are debating whether we have Covid: temperatures, coughs, exhaustion, the whole shebang. That, combined with the news, makes it feel like we’re in a deeply unsubtle novel, in which the sickness of the body politic is matched by the sickness in the yada yada yada. Anyway, please do forgive me if this newsletter …