We are learning to live – those of us that have not succumbed to the virus – with a government that is pathologically incompetent.  But coming to terms with the lies is another matter.   I don’t think I’ll ever get used to it.

A few days ago Hancock, the Health Secretary (he might as well be renamed Minister for Contagion and done with it) assured us that the government had placed its gloved hand around care homes from the outset of the crisis.  There have been deaths, he said, but they are down to bad luck as much as anything.  “Alas, that is not quite as I recall,” the Justice Secrtary, Robt. Buckland – a slippery individual if ever I saw one – announced this morning, adding “we concentrated on the NHS.”   They can’t both be right.  One of them is lying.