When the news broke that Dominic Cummings had
ignored the rules the rest of us were following to drive his family to County
Durham many people, myself included felt betrayed. No. It was worse than that,
here was a man at the heart of government, deeply involved in taking the
decision that we should be cloistered for weeks, only to decide that the rules
applied only to lay people, not those in positions of power.

DOM THE
EYE is my response to the never-ending
saga of these people with power and influence ignoring rules whenever it suits
them, regardless of the risk to others. Since then far too many other powerful
people have been carrying on however they please without stopping to consider
the message it sends to the rest of us. It’s hardly surprising there has been a
backlash. We’re becoming ever more cynical about our ‘lords and masters’
competence and ever more defiant of their orders. The first casualty in all of
this has been trust – our trust in those who should be doing the right thing to
actually do it.

One of the ways I have tried to deal with this
insanity has been the use of humour. It would be funny if the situation weren’t
so grave. And grave it is, quite literally, for far too many.

Dominic Cummings has become a slug, he’s known
as DOM THE EYE.