Tuesday was the national day of reflection to mark the anniversary of the start of the first lockdown. Boris Johnson hadn’t bothered to attend five Cobra meetings; he had insisted on ignoring the scientific evidence by boasting about shaking hands; he had allowed the Cheltenham Festival to go ahead. And there would have been all hell to pay if he had tried to cancel Carrie Symonds’s baby shower at Chequers. Johnson observed that it had been a completely new virus and that they had had to make up policy on the hoof. There again, Johnson probably couldn’t do his job without a high level of denial about the mistakes he has made.

Source: The Guardian March 23, 2021 20:47 UTC