The situation we found ourselves in is that, within days... the prime minister's girlfriend is trying to get rid of us and appoint complete clowns to certain key jobs.

Dominic Cummings, about the period directly after Boris Johnson's 2019 election win. The first open admission of what was always suspected, at least by me.

It seems that women understand they are unelectable in certain situations and run puppets instead.

I don't have insider information, and it really concerns me that I keep being right.