Boris Johnson’s Covid legacy, Opinion, 16 June 2023 cats The Guardian photographer Graeme Robertson

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

It was a dark winter’s day

One is the light: the setting sun illuminates the trees

turned off other lights and danced with the lantern

Boris Johnson’s Covid legacy, Opinion, 16 June 2023 cats The Guardian photographer Graeme RobertsonAfter 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