Monday update

Last night it emerged that the Prime Minister had been taken into hospital for tests.

Let me be clear, I wish Johnson nor his family any ill harm. So, I hope he recovers quickly.

At the same time, the Queen addressed the nation hoping that the crisis will heal the nation and we can all meet again on the other side. So that future generations will look back as to what a great job the country did in pulling together.

I am not going to argue with that, and in times of crisis it is good that there is a non-political figure that can speak to the nation. That she can't do anything of substance is another matter.

Footballers have come under criticism over the weekend, for continuing to draw their wages.

By and large, there are working class kids done good just by being good at something. If footballers should subsidise health research in these times, then so should all millionaires, billionaires and people like JRM.

Quite why Matt Hancock decided to pick on footballers in what should have been an update of PPE procurement and testing, maybe to create a diversion? As this morning, The Times is reporting that the millions of test kits manufactured and distributed are pretty much useless as they only work on confirmed cases.

Police have been arresting people in public parks and other shared spaces when they refuse to go home. People have the right to exercise and be out, as long as they observe the rules. Or as DAG describes it, social behaviour is now deemed to be anti-social, and there is the problem.

Members of the public have been spying on neighbours, reporting transgressions to the police, even when those people are observing Government guidelines.

How easily we slip into a totalitarian state.