The Brexit boys are back in town – and this time, their suicide mission is ending the lockdown

They can’t talk about leaving the EU, because no one is listening. So they’ve focused instead on the profit over the right to live, writes Matthew Norman

Farage’s rebuttal is that, as a ‘broadcaster’, he is a key worker. As he certainly will be if ever he takes a job with Timpson (Getty)

The one compensation about the imminent threat of mortal illness is that it frees you from worrying about anything else.

Anyone who ever waited for an MRI result will understand. For the days between the scan and learning what it found, you are wholly cocooned. Whatever else is happening in your world ceases to matter.

The usual stresses evaporate. You are in a weirdly cosseting kind of suspended animation. With the future temporarily out of view, you live entirely in the present.