Digested week: I get to see my mother for the first time since March

So much, yet so little, has happened since early March, not least Grant Shapp's ruined holiday

Monday

You can't help but feel a little sorry for Grant Shapps's family. After all, if you can't trust the transport secretary not to ruin his own holiday, then who can you? Back in April, Grant told the Today programme that he definitely wouldn't be travelling abroad this summer, but some time between then and last Saturday he must have changed his mind after having negotiated safe air corridors" between Britain and various countries.