House Arrest: Pandemic Diaries

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Though neither of us knows quite where it is, we realise we must be getting close from the number of 80-year-olds and carers making their way off the Kentish Town Road, all on the same errand. It was an international train, headed, I think, for Istanbul, but overnight transformed in certain sections into something much more domestic.

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I must cost the NHS a fortune, and I’m glad that through Talking Heads we were able to repay some of that, if only a little. A card from Tom King [a friend of Bennett’s publisher’s son] with news of the tattoo of me that he had put on his arm (pictured in the Diary published in the London Review of Books of 3 January 2019): “The tattoo remains popular, though bizarrely one person thought it was of Henry Kissinger. Then there’s the intimate singing of the garden robins — their tunes have a melancholy note at this time of year.

It’s busy but quiet, and notable, considering the presence of so many aged patients, for the absence of chuntering. Hancock asked George Osborne, the Conservative ex-chancellor for whom he once worked, for favourable coverage in the Evening Standard newspaper, which Osborne edited at the time.

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However, it added that the saga raised “questions around the conditions on which departing members of government retain and subsequently use official information which need to be considered by organisations such as the Cabinet Office”.He is a longtime Soviet agent and one of the questions implicit in the scene is whether the queen knows this. Shot in 2021, a film of Allelujah, Alan Bennett’s 2018 play set on a geriatric ward, is released next month. There were those in 1914 who believed that war was just what was needed – as a cleanser and a salutary shock.