We are all in it together.
That has been the official refrain since the early days of the pandemic, back when we first squared our shoulders, started stockpiling loo rolls and began spying on our neighbours with vigour, thermal binoculars and a time-stamped electronic notebook to hand.
Or was that just me?
And we are still all in it together except when it comes to the last packet of pasta on the supermarket shelf.
Or non-observance of curfews when no one is looking.
Or, above all, being a government minister and/or adviser.
Today, being a member of the crony-demic gang seems to mean that you can ignore all of the rules all of the time, even the ones you have devised yourself.
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The Duchess of Sussex may have announced this week she has written her first children s book called The Bench, but there is, of course, another Duchess who beat her to it.
Step forward the Duchess of York, 61, the leading writer of children s fiction in royal circles, who made her name with her Budgie The Little Helicopter series.
And Sarah is clearly determined that Meghan doesn t steal her publishing limelight, as this August she makes her first foray into adult fiction, with a historical romance called Her Heart For A Compass, co-written with Marguerite Kaye, for Mills & Boon, no less.
Fergie and Meghan have much in common; both of them entered royalty as outsiders, both married second-born princes and both have reinvented themselves as writers.