The lost art of propaganda music.

If only it was as easy to undo the damage caused by lockdown as it is to slash the predictions that got us there in the first place.

‘The government has their new man; one who uncritically abides by any new restrictions with the assurance that it has been astutely devised by experts, one who washes his hands, distances himself from others, and wears a mask.’

This classic warning from Huxley was echoed by Lord Sumption on BBC Radio Four last week when he reminded the public that free societies become tyrannies often because the people relinquish their liberties, rather than have them taken by force.