Digested week: I’m gearing up for Freedom to Catch Covid Day | Lucy Mangan

As the government continued to fail at governing, at least England had an easy win in exposing Lawrence Fox's hypocrisy

Data, not dates! Except, after all - dates. The government (are we still using that word? It feels like such a misnomer at this stage. The gafferment? The gufferment, farting into its empty hands) announces that the country will lay aside virtually all Covid-19 restrictions on 19 July - Covid Freedom Day" as our genuinely pathetic prime minister terms it - as planned.