Why the dithering?
It's likely the vast majority will wear masks in shops when it becomes required in England at the end of next week – after all, we all want to control the virus.
Yet the contradictory twists and turns of Boris Johnson and his squabbling Cabinet ministers do nothing to inspire confidence.
Proposing now what the PM earlier rejected has a whiff of the airport quarantine fiasco.
The high death rates for retail staff – between 60% and 75% above the national average – suggests if face coverings work, they should have been introduced long ago.
The Government’s failure to publish detailed evidence or the reasons they waited, dents public confidence in the Prime Minister.
It won’t be the £100 fines that sees people comply. It will be the urge to do the right thing.
The public will yet again show a common sense that’s too often lacking in our dithering, vacillating, error-making, blame-shifting PM.
Power failure
It is of huge concern that two Russian tycoons behind a controversial £1.2billion energy scheme could pay to share a table with a Cabinet Minister whose department must rule on their venture.
Business Secretary Alok Sharma should not let himself be put in potentially compromising positions and have to leave rulings to a junior.
Our revelation today, weeks after the property development scandal involving Housing Secretary Robert Jenrick, paints a worrying picture of how meetings with top Tory politicians are effectively sold to the wealthy.
The Tories must end these cash-for-access fundraisers. They poison our democracy.
Skye’s the limit
I’m a Celebrity Get Me Out Of Scotland may upset SNP nationalists.
But if producers relocate the popular show from Australia over coronavirus travel restrictions, we can forget about kangaroo testicles.
Haggis in a sheep’s stomach or a fried Mars Bar are a way more daunting Bushtucker Trial.
