As the latest lockdown enters its second week, officials warn people aren’t taking it seriously enough, case numbers surge and hospitals are at breaking point.

But Matt Hancock has has booked his summer holiday, such is his optimism for the year ahead. It is apparently this optimism that has put him in Boris Johnson’s bad books. It’s not as if the Prime Minister has a history of over-the-top predictions of glory that turn out to be gibberish.

As if that’s not enough, we still have more than a week of Donald Trump’s carnival of idiocy to survive. Will he be impeached after inspiring a mob to try to undermine democracy? Or removed from office because he’s a dangerous rabble-rousing racist lunatic? No, of course not.

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