Indian Summer ..and more court

Wow, it's really warm today. Could be the middle of June. Making it doubly hard to sit down and type anything. I'm a bit fed up with the endless political drama. I watched a bit more of the Supreme Court hearing today. I thought Lord Keen QC spoke very well defending the government position. Again, hopefully the court will come down on the side of Boris. The judgement's now expected early next week. I was hoping the eleven judges would give their verdict there and then, like X Factor judges, but alas we'll have to wait. To Be Continued...

Also, yesterday we saw a situation where, first of all, Boris was embarrassingly accosted on camera by an angry father, who was complaining about the NHS. Stating that his new born daughter had had to wait too long for treatment due to shortages. Then, hot on the heels of this furore, it was then discovered that the "angry father" was in fact a Labour Party and remain activist who'd worked for Emily Thornberry.

The revealing of the man's identity then in turn led to criticism that those drawing attention to him were harassing him, or encouraging others to harass him. The main focus of this criticism quite surprisingly was Laura Kuenssberg, who'd simply shared a link to the man's Twitter profile. The hashtag #sacklaurakuenssberg then started trending.

It was quite fascinating to watch this unfold. Normally it's me stating that many of these media events are somewhat staged. So it was quite refreshing to watch senior people in the media ask some of these questions. Even if simply inadvertently. It was clearly a bit of a set up on poor Boris, who's been set up a few times for bad publicity over the last week or so.

The political commentator Owen Jones also retweeted a tweet (in condemnation) where someone had questioned if the man even had a baby at the hospital. Obviously this tweet was met with widespread criticism and disdain. I'm not even going to go there myself, I'm sick of being an online social pariah for asking these questions. So I have no idea if there's any possibility that this could be the case. It is quite a logical question to ask though in such circumstances, if a little heartless. What if he is lying? People do lie.

I think most people in the media, even the good decent people in the media, would rather not look in that box though. Just in case it leads to bigger questions.