I have longed for the departure of Mr Cummings from Downing Street as much as anybody (ambiguity intended), but now it has come about there are a few points to be made:

• Cummings may be gone, but he leaves behind him a toxic mess of false promises and wreck hopes; oh, and a destroyed country
• the manner of Cumming’s going may indeed become him, but it is not seemly for a prime minster to throw his adviser out of the door during a blazing row. This is not the mark of a careful, considerate man, but the behaviour of a spoilt, impetuous child
• if it is indeed true, that Cummings departure was brought about by Johnson’s common law wife, that is also bad. Not, perhaps as bad as leaving the man in place, but decisions concerning senior personnel should be taken by the (elected) prime minister, not his unelected wife
• the country is on the cusp of two important moments: the end of the Brexit negotiations and the lifting of the second lock-down.  Kemal-Johnson is not a fit person to deal with either, and any adviser he appoints will be almost entirely lacking in experience of the complexities of either
• Cummings came as a package along with Piggling Gove, and it would be fitting for them to leave as a package: Get Gove out of Government
• Kemal-Johnson is loyal to nobody except himself, ever

Doubtless there is more to be said, but that’ll do for starters.