Not normally one for those “can you imagine if CORBYN did this” counterfactuals, but I assume that it Corbyn had won in December and initiated a lock-down in mid-March, about half of the country would have flatly ignored it, urged on by most newspapers.

Charles Moore, Daniel Hannan and Toby Young would currently be being sought by the police in connection with a series of detonations across the capital.

I only read Foucault's Society Must Be Defended for the first time a few months ago, but right now it's his most important book - on the origins of counter-sovereign discourses, which rest on a combination of resentment, national origin myths and idea of history as perpetual war

For example, Toby Young currently describes himself as a ‘Covid dissident’.