Well that was an interesting weekend. Great company, great Lunch, great walk amongst the Victorian Vallahal at Highgate (I’d love to claim that as my idea but John Betchman got there first!) and then catching COVID – not great. Although by my calculations I didn’t catch COVID whilst I was in London but probably a few days before but this last week hasn’t my best.

Not sure what Karl Marx would have made of COVID but I suspect somewhere a Phd thesis is being written discussing that very point – perhaps by some unknown Chinese student as there seemed to be a number who were or wanted to visit the grave. Sometimes it is hard to remember that the Chinese Communist Party is a Marxist organisation but clearly the young students studying in London haven’t and Marx must have been a real hero in their education.