Day: 10 August 2020

Love in the Time of Covid Matthew Rhys and Keri Russell in The Americans, the TV show about two undercover Soviet agents living in America in the 1980s, posing as a suburban couple. That's what it's like being a lockdown sceptic in a nation of bedwetters. Well, that set the cat among the pigeons. Yesterday, I launched a dating section in the Forums called "Love in a Covid Climate" and within hours it had been invaded by trolls posting satirical comments. Some of them were quite funny, although they took it for granted that lockdown sceptics are all Brexit-backing Tories. (Evidently haven't read "The Left-Wing Case Against Lockdown".) The National – the SNP-supporting online newspaper that never misses a chance to have a pop at me – published a selection of them within hours of the forum going live. Here are a couple of my favourites. After a demoralising divorce I was, like many, reinvigorated by the Brexit movement only to be let down by Boris in this mask debacle. Looking for Albion-loving lady 35-50 who would be open to dressing up as Winston Churchill and spanking me with a cricket bat while I sing 'Land of Hope and Glory'. No snowflakes need apply. Hi my name is Miles.I live in North London and I'm looking for a patriotic lady ...