953 deaths have been reported in the last 24 hours, the highest, grimmest total yet: the highest single day toll in Spain was 950, in Italy, 919. This is absolutely horrific, a national catastrophe, and yet most of the media still isn't asking the government tough questions. Why?

It is possible to wish Boris Johnson a full recovery without declaring that him leaving intensive care means this "really is a Good Friday" when nearly a thousand people are dying every day, inflicting misery on their loved ones, with the government having big questions to answer

It's also the *tone* of the media's coverage. Rather than focusing on the fact this country is in the grip of a national catastrophe without precedent since WWII and asking how we got to this point, the tone is "The government's got this, their masterplan is paying off!"

(There's conflicting reports about whether the highest death toll in Italy was 919 or 971: either way, both were diabolically high death tolls and were rightly covered here as unimaginable national catastrophes. So why not here?)