The pumpkins will provide a spooky addition to the palace’s Halloween decorations (Steve Parsons/PA)
(Picture: PA Wire)Even before the pandemic, sending children round to strangers’ houses for the purpose of consuming their body weight in refined sugars was not exactly a public health triumph.
Still, in terms of cheer, this would be an improvement on Halloween 2020, when the Prime Minister announced a second national lockdown in England in order to prevent a “medical and moral disaster”.
So this year, whether you are dressing up as a witch or staying at home praying for no knocks on the door, let us be thankful that it is our vaccination programme that has enabled this Halloween to be quite different from the last.
