Michael Rosen
The New Reality Words by Michael Rosen Illustration by Dan Berry
How worrying it must be to be in power when children watch the news hour by hour. Take as one example the lockdown time, when a breach of the rules, earned you a fine; you and your family didn’t have ‘dos’, kept all meetings, down to twos; missed out on seeing Gramps and Nan you did what was best, as part of the plan. Then you turn on your TV and you quickly hear that those in power, only last year, were gathering together - women and men for drinks and laughs, at Number 10. But hold it right there! There is much concern
that children, knowing this, might speak out of turn. Horror of horrors! Children have written letters that seem to criticise their powerful betters letters written by children, in their schools about those who broke the lockdown rules. Luckily, the response has been sharp and clear from those in power who bend our ear. Such letters will have no place in the new reality we must, in future, show political impartiality.
