Though when you consider how much he could have spent on wallpaper, you have to look on the bright side. It’s in the north-east, Johnson repeated like a mantra, to avoid the awkwardness of saying where the manufacturing facility actually is, which is Barnard Castle. Nothing can be known until that which can be known is known, whereupon we will know some knowns. The word “irreversible”, in relation to the roadmap out of lockdown, is doing some very heavy lifting. The plan remains “cautious but irreversible”, yet the irreversibility is itself subject to a large number of conditions – principally, nothing bad happening.

Source: The Guardian March 29, 2021 18:56 UTC