Right now even an L – a steep plunge that at least bottoms out – would be acceptable. Instead it is starting to look like an I: a collapse that goes down and down.’ So wrote Matthew Lynn in Saturday’s Daily Telegraph. It is one where if at 50 you fatten, society and the NHS will have to be protected from you. The Johnson regime is now, despite an 80-seat majority, in its own desperate crisis, with its own Tory ‘learn to live with the virus’ faction growing rapidly. In fact, Saturday’s Telegraph also lauded Churchill’s war time national government as a model one for dealing with crises.