Ministers have struggled to wear a mask. Do they think it makes them look weak? | Catherine Bennett

The chancellor missed an opportunity to deliver a life-saving message along with Wagamama's chicken

Whatever he has done to Wagamama's previously enviable reputation, Rishi Sunak has demonstrated that, even in one of those countries where the leadership is also a recognised disease vector, some hygiene failures can still shock.

We might be resigned to a clammy-looking Boris Johnson transmitting virus between hand, home and lectern; to a health secretary who, also ignoring his own advice, sneaks up behind colleagues in his deadly pink tie; or to a chief adviser who seems positively inspired by the plague-spreading achievements of medieval body lice; but still - spraying saliva over meals?