E4

Out for quite a few hours on the workboat party. Row A being attended to. Back to get the feet up (after a thorough washing down) and read the papers. An excellent article in the Sunday Times, by one Dan Neidle, previously head of tax at a London law firm before founding a tax think tank. He knows his onions. "When I said Nadhim Zahawi owed the taxman, he set his lawyers on me. Now he’s handed over millions.” Another rotten dirty tattie in Johnson’s ship of rats. As for poor old Rishi, he got 100 squidders fine for not wearing his seatbelt in the back seat. What a farce. The Met can’t even root out rapists in their own workforce, but they can prosecute guff like that. Is a simple ticking off no longer a mark of good policing? 
Anyway, I was in good spirits so we started on The US and the Holocaust by Ken Burns. At first I thought it was going to be too American-centric, but nope, over the course of the first two hour episode it slowly expands and draws you in. It’s not harrowing (so far) - rather it’s a worrying lesson about how thin the veneer of civilisation is. Superb.