On the other hand, some laws are blatantly worth ignoring, as they are foolish and pointless and exist to serve only small parts of the community, or provide easy answers to complicated problems. Drugs, for example. Most of us ignore them because our internal moral barometer knows the laws are wrong.

Likewise, authority. We tend to listen to doctors, or university lecturers, because they tend to know more about the subject than we do; but some blindly paying attention if the individual is clearly ignorant or deluded. We tend to ignore cops, believing ourselves to be adequate moral authorities and the cops to be primarily servants of the status quo. But in an emergency we’ll utilise their services, or listen to their voices, as they’re trained to deal with certain things that are outside our experiences

We are all under the iron boot of Boris now.

As a working class lefty from a family for whom class was something that you sat in at school and politics was voting tory once every four or five years because of law and order or some shit, I have absolutely no idea how I ended up a lefty. I think it’s because I grew up believing in a kind and loving god, and therefore being completely confused about all the injustice in the world.