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You know, Drakeford makes good sense. I just hope he isn't being over-optimistic: Welsh first minister suggests civic responsibility matters more than rules in fighting Covid Mark Drakeford, the Welsh first minister, also did a broadcast media round this morning. Here...

Oh no he hasn't. Oh no it isn't. What pantomime season?

So long as they have vote for him, he probably doesn't give a damn.

Is that because the rate of infection is already so stupendously huge? (And, I assume, you mean zero EXTRA cases and deaths?)

I particularly note that Johnson point blank refused to help Wales by stopping people travelling from high infection areas of England to Wales - even while Wales was itself struggling and had banned people in Wales from moving freely. Yet now, it appears: This means people cannot travel...

I'll reflect on that but you argue persuasively.

Looks like schools will be closing: Michael Gove, the Cabinet Office minister, is being interviewed now on Times Radio. Asked if he can give a firm assurance that schools will not close, he says yes. ;)

Gove says the original projections about the spread of the virus underestimated it. The situation has been “worse than any of us expected”, he says. Obviously the wrong people doing the expecting. Many elsewhere have been expecting just what is happening. Certainly for weeks it has been...

Did he ever win a Grammy?

But muslin is used as a nappy liner...

I think I heard Wales will still be ending the fire break on the 9th.

Yet again, confusion: Chief medical officer, Chris Whitty, starts with slides. Across virtually the entire country now, there is a significant rate of increase. Is that the UK? Or England? Might be true whichever, but it is lamentable that there appears to be close to zero understanding.

I don't see that inference at all! Maybe Clement Attlee? But if the electorate don't get it, we are sunk.

Farron couldn't decide anything - most especially about homosexuality and tolerance. Or he couldn't tell anyone what he had decided.

Can they wrap up a press conference in less than forty minutes? 18:30 Johnson 19:10 Strictly [Added] Maybe they should merge the announcement into the next program - and have Strictly Lockdown?

Not all humour has disappeared:

He's got quite a lot of competition. Tim Farron for one.

Relatively few will remember The Hill and Marnie.

I see the demographic might have shifted a bit: Speaking in a personal capacity on the BBC Radio 4 Today programme, Prof Calum Semple, a member of Sage, said the country was in a second wave of the virus. “Unlike the first wave, where we had a national lockdown which protected huge swathes of...