Boris Johnson’s “one-way road to freedom” is littered with unnecessary corpses and we pray there won’t be more.
So, while he knows we all yearn to resume many activities currently curtailed or banned, the Prime Minister must not repeat the fatal irresponsibility that has cost families dear.
To throw away a golden opportunity created by what the Government’s Chief Scientific Adviser, Sir Patrick Vallance, hailed as the “miracle of the vaccines”, would be tragic.
More mistakes from No10 will be paid for in lives as well as livelihoods.
A PM with a terrible track record – 120,000 are dead – must proceed safely, pushing ahead according to the data not the dates he has set.
Families desperate to hug grandchildren again rely on infections, hospitalisations and deaths to continue falling.
Johnson won’t be forgiven if he blows this chance for us to escape from Covid’s clutches.
Foot the bill
Taxpayers having to bail out staff from Sir Philip Green’s sunk empire is another reason to strip him of his knighthood.
Arcadia’s blameless workers deserve redundancy pay after losing their jobs, but the loaded businessman should be footing the bill.
Instead while he floats about on a £100million superyacht, a government-backed rescue service is picking up the tab.
What’s happening might be legal but should it be allowed? Once again we see there’s nothing Topman about the controversial businessman with an infamous temper.
To fall from King of the High Street to a man branded an “unacceptable face of capitalism” is the shaming of Philip Green.
Break dancers
Someone must have skated over a black cat or under a ladder for actor Jason Donovan to become the seventh Dancing On Ice contestant to hang up his blades.
A crisis-hit TV show losing injured contestants faster than they can be voted off should be renamed Breaking On Ice.
