When the ship has sailed, one can only stand and stare.

Idrigill

Docking from Tarbert Harris

“Isn’t our society strange? A couple of months earlier these people, the social worker, the police officer, the care worker would have acceded to the government and put my mum in a care home to be isolated for twenty-four hours every day, residing with the sickest, most Covid riddled patients from the nearest hospital, and not giving a damn enough to send a querying email to their boss about the situation. And possibly a few months from now, these very same people who provided me with such a caring, attentive service for my missing mum would, I am sure, have seen me isolated, arrested, detained and disappeared with a similar indifference once I had been denominated an ‘Anti-vaxxer’, or another pejorative, and declared a danger requiring removal.”

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East Renfrewshire Council scold kids for using the union flag.