It was with regret, Buckingham Palace announced, that the Queen was cancelling her annual pre-Christmas bash at Sandringham.
Apparently she didn’t want to ruin anyone else’s plans for the big day, a sentence so meekly un-regal I had to read it twice to check it was the right way round. But at least someone seemingly remembers how to lead from the front. Her government, meanwhile, appears to have chosen this particular moment to abdicate.
Boris Johnson shimmied out of doing the dirty work at this week’s pandemic press conference, fervently insisting that even though Covid-19 cases are now thought to be doubling slightly faster than every two days – which suggests they could be up eightfold by Christmas – his government wasn’t cancelling
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