I re-run on my retina the Johnson rise to power. Alongside his bus-ad hoax, I see him standing on a soap-box outside a care home shouting, “Remember the Bard: ‘sans teeth, sans eyes, sans taste, sans everything. We shall abolish the seventh age of man. What a relief for everyone concerned, eh?” Would that pitch have worked as well as “Get Brexit done?” Probably not. So how has it happened that the Johnson team have been able to get away with this murderous stuff? THESE are the hands that will work along side yours as you build your future together, as you laugh and cry, as you share your innermost secrets and dreams.

Yesterday I was discussing life with a friend. We were reflecting on our values and priorities. We talked about what we considered to be the greatest moments in each of our lives. These are the hands that will work along side yours, as together you build your future, as you laugh and cry, as you share your innermost secrets and dreams. Reaching out and taking someone's hand is the beginning of a journey. At other times, it is allowing another to take yours." - Vera Nazarian, "The Perpetual Calendar of Inspiration"These are the hands that will comfort you in illness, and hold you when fear or grief engulfs your heart. These are the hands that hold yours on your wedding day as she gives you her pledge to love you and accepts your ring. These are the hands that will hold you in joy, excitement and hope each time she tells you that you are to have another child; that together you have created new life.

THESE are the hands that will give you support knowing that together as a team everything you wish for can be realized. Coming at this difficult time it is a cornucopia of positivity, juxtaposed with poems that will challenge the emotions. These are the hands that will passionately love you and cherish you through the years, and with the slightest touch, will comfort you like no other. These are the hands that will tenderly lift your chin and brush your cheek as they raise your face to look into his eyes; eyes that are filled completely with his overwhelming love and desire for you. These are the hands that will passionately love you and cherish you through the years, and with the slightest touch will comfort you like no other.I’m one of them. Yes, I see myself amongst the buffers, and reading Vallance’s notes is bitter fare. I don’t like my Covid inheritance: my mostly blind left eye and mostly deaf left ear. But then I remember that thanks to people who acted in ways diametrically opposed to this government’s necrophilia, I got to play again. They worked like crazy to make sure I didn’t die - and of course not just me, tens of thousands of us. In the here and now, reading the chilling stuff that this inquiry has brought to the surface, I see a boiling mix of Malthus and Calvin. That’s to say, not only have millions of people been treated as an unwanted surplus but Johnson thought it was pre-determined that they should be. That’s a sinister recipe. THESE are the hands that will love you and cherish you throughout the years for a lifetime of happiness. These are the hands that through the years will caress your body in the passion of love, to enhance your intimacy.