Boris Johnson’s Covid legacy, Opinion, 16 June 2023 cats Surreal is an overused term

Surreal is an overused term

The Guardian photographer Graeme Robertson rose early last Sunday to photograph nearly 50 hot air balloons that took flight across London

before its 200 competitors hit the roads of Kent in a fight to the finish in Canterbury

turned off other lights and danced with the lantern

who died in 2011

Boris Johnson’s Covid legacy, Opinion, 16 June 2023 cats Surreal is an overused termAfter it was announced in June that Banksy would be having a rare, retrospective exhibition in Glasgow I reappropriated two of the artists most iconic works to illustrate Boris Johnsons governments disastrous handling of the pandemic and what that cost so many. This was in light of a damning Privileges Committee report on Partygate and also feels prescient at the time of writing as we learn more from the ongoing Covid Inquiry. Illustration: Ben