This is Iain Martin’s newsletter for Reaction subscribers.
At this rate, Covid restrictions in Britain will lift just in time for the government’s announcement of its next lockdown. The plan to reopen on 21 June looks like a goner this weekend. Briefings from Number 10 ahead of Monday’s formal decision suggest a delay of four weeks, taking us into late July, but please don’t hold your breath for that late July reopening. By then who knows what fresh scares will have been conjured up that can be run past voters in opinion polling and focus groups and then recycled in government propaganda amplifying the original fear, thus continuing the cycle of fear and doom?
