Chief Inspector Jason Kew offered the usual pitiful excuse for this surrender, that it would “free up” time for his force to focus on “serious” crime, implying that teenagers openly smoking cannabis, inhaling nitrous oxide and snorting cocaine in public isn’t serious.

The Conservative Party’s talk about ‘Buying British’, and of the opportunities Brexit provides to ‘unleash Britain’s potential’, is just that; talk.

She was not targeted for anything to do with COVID-19, or even the lockdown. She was singled out for her unwillingness to comply and go along with the crowd.

Starmer has elected to be the Government’s cheerleader, dancing to the tune of ever more debilitating Coronavirus restrictions.

Very few people, in fact, are against intervention in principle, otherwise they would criticise the interventions in Kosovo and Sierra Leone just as much as the 2003 invasion of Iraq.

‘The thesis that something like an essential human nature must exist – necessity self-applied – is far more persuasive than any attempt made to describe it.’

The cure is becoming worse than the disease (if it hasn’t already), and keeping these measures in place until a vaccine is available will cause irreparable damage.

‘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.’