JungleLand

Pandemic. Lockdown. Boris Johnson. Tories killing British wildlife. Anti-vaxxers. Scousers and Mancunians uniting over their hatred of 5G masts. And then burning them down. A lot has happened since my PhD-induced hiatus from writing these pieces.  I don't think I can provide too much regular, original and exclusive insight into lockdown as an autistic person, and for that I recommend @commaficionado and @emkburke  on Twitter, yet I can and  am allowed to get irrationally and unnecessarily worked up over minor things that most people would not let enter their lexicon of labours and daily travails. So let us crank that hood open and warm this engine up, baby. Firstly, 'social distancing'. It is literally a term that makes zero contextual sense, being misused daily. A term that reeks of medical advice that has been given by a Tory-strongarmed scientific adviser, a vignette of Westminster itself: desperately requiring something catchy to paper over near-total indifference to h