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Almost unbelievably to add to yesterday’s pantomime, I am delighted to reveal a second round of even more extremely online Cummings blog stupidity since his surreal rose garden press conference last night. After Cummings claimed yesterday that he had done a lot of "superforecasting" of coronavirus "over the last few years" at the start of a public address that he gave, somebody decided to verify this by checking some of the edit history of his blog. Due to his own truly deranged sense of hubristic pride, they were obviously highly skeptical about his claims that he had been warning about the dangers of a pandemic "for years", specifically in a blog post that he initially wrote in March 2019 about biolabs.  This is where we start entering territory so pathetically hilarious that even Armando Ianucci would be genuinely embarrassed to write anything this contrived. Apparently, The technologically illiterate chicken brain decided that he would be able to crea...

I am so sick and tired of the press treating this gormless little nerd as some sort of Machiavellian schemer. The archetype of a keyboard warrior who spends all his time telling his little circle of forum boys how clever they all are on an obscure right wing blog will be familiar to any of us who have ever had the misfortune of accidentally landing on an alt right reddit thread. The obvious giveaway that this is the case should come from the fact that Cummings hired a literal race eugenicist on the basis that he frequently complimented his sophomoric blog posts. Who knew that “assorted weirdos” actually just meant a bunch of posh Oxbridge humanities twits who really liked your 8000 word psychoanalysis of Otto von Bismarck’s dress sense.    This clown is little more than a glorified press relations spin doctor who happens to know a few lobby journalists moderately well. By not pointing this out more directly, broadcast hacks like Laura Kuenssberg and Robert Peston have let...