Beavering away
We hear The Great Khan’s most trusted sleuth, SA, is beavering away at the sugar and wheat case forensic report, sitting on Takht Lahore with his aides. This would suggest that The Great Khan has an axe to grind. The report is to be revealed later this month, it’s claimed. What’s interesting is that the South Punjab bloc aka The Khan’s Sugar Daddies were once thought to be The Boyz’ blue-eyed boys. It now appears that The Boyz have thrown them under the bus. Who oh why?
Splendid isolation
Many of the world’s rich and famous have chosen to spend their isolation time on their rural retreats, in some cases grand estates. Prince Charles, heir to the British throne, was diagnosed with Coronavirus last month and immediately left for his Scottish estate, Birkhall, which he inherited from his late grandmother Queen Elizabeth, the Queen Mother. He lived there for weeks, with a reduced staff, cooking his own meals and cleaning his own rooms, until another test revealed that he had overcome the virus. His wife, Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall lived apart from the Prince during this time. We could call it “splendid isolation,” in the words of Britain’s mid-19th century statesman Lord Palmerston, who coined the phrase about the kingdom’s go-it-alone foreign policy of the time.
Eating his words
For a man who claimed that he would “send the virus packing” within a matter of weeks, the British Premier Boris Johnson had to eat his words when he was diagnosed with coronavirus and, horror of horrors, taken to an Intensive Care Unit when his symptoms worsened. At the best of times, he’s not one to follow rules and could be seen flouting them even after the lockdown was ordered. Tut tut!