Now, the threat has changed from radicalised Islamists waging Jihad on the West, to an invisible foe that can penetrate our very anatomy

‘Diamond’ handed internet people have exposed the ridiculousness of the modern free market system and how it is abused routinely by the rich and powerful.

What work, if it puts food on the table and draws a line between financial and mental stability and ruin, can seriously be deemed unessential?

The vaccine rollout will create more ‘new variants’, but we cannot wait to leave lockdown until it has led us to ‘herd immunity’ status. The toll of lockdown is already too great.

Steered by SAGE, the Prime Minister’s vague exit strategy spells months more of strangled businesses and an economy that will keep on spiralling downwards.

The UK needs to follow the example of de Gaulle, give up the fantasy of a ‘special relationship’ and recognise that we are a separate nation with separate interests.

Indeed, there is no act that cannot ultimately be excused by determinism. The idea of free will (and therefore personal responsibility) is the only safeguard against a deterministic apologism for any sort of tyranny.

Operation Fear, during and after the fallout of the E.U. referendum, was bad — but this is on another level entirely.