Naturally, of course, I’m in the mocking camp. I just can’t see the point of shouting at each other.

Recently, however, even mockery seems to make no sense. The humour is coming from the other side. Whilst we have all been in lockdown, we discover last week that the Prime Minister’s chief political advisor, one of the team who set the rules, completely breached them.

The comedy comes from the fact that, for weeks (during which time I was dressing up as vicars and butchers) we were told to stay at home. Specifically, we were told NOT to go out if we have symptoms. Dominic Cummings and his wife both had symptoms. But they also have a four year old son. So they drove 260 miles to Durham in order for him to be looked after by Dominic’s elderly parents.

Now that, in anyone’s books, is a very clear breach of the rules. You would think.

Not so. We are now told that that was OK. The British public didn’t fully understand.

Worse was to come.

On Easter Sunday, which also happened to be his wife’s birthday, the family drove to a beauty spot some 30 miles away. A place called Barnard Castle. This was discovered by journalists who had had reports from the public about seeing him. At first, these reports were denied by Downing Street. But the journalists persisted.

In the end, Dominic admitted he’d gone there but explained his reasons why. It wasn’t a ‘day out’ (after all, we the government had specifically told us to stay in over the hot Easter weekend)

Dominic felt he should return to work despite not having fully recovered. His wife was worried his eyesight wasn’t up to the 260 mile drive south. I guess he could have said, ‘Look, let me drive a little way and, if it turns out I can’t see, we’ll turn back…somehow’.

By the time he got to Barnard Castle, he was 30 miles closer to London but his eyesight must have been bad as they did go back to his parents place. His eyesight recovered a day or so later so they drove back to London.