Whatever one’s view about illegal immigrants crossing the channel, the news of so many deaths on one boat is chilling in the extreme.

The pandemic in bringing about the closure of businesses, notably in the hospitality industry, created a new crisis because of the need for businesses to continue to pay their rents. Many could not.

What was the true motive for a camera in a government minister’s office, seemingly hidden in a smoke detector? At first we thought Matt Hancock had been rather careless, performing his act of failure to self-distance in front of a security camera!

This post will not be long but hopefully long enough to make you think about trust in the NHS.

In what has been described as the worst case of miscarriage of justice the UK has ever seen, 39 former postmasters have had their convictions for fraud and false accounting quashed.

Our message today will be short. The Union flag, known colloquially as the Union jack is the national flag of the United Kingdom.

The police have broken up a wedding party in London at the Orthodox Charedi Jewish school which was being attended by 400 people.

The increase in fatalities in the NHS has raised the question about whether members of the NHS staff should be liable for deaths when they have to make what are potentially life and death decisions about who to treat, for example if there are two patients and only one ventilator.

Worldwide people sat inter alia with jaws dropped as the country probably regarded as the most free and democratic of the world televised the invasion of their capitol building by angry protestors as the house was proceeding to meet to conduct what was simply a procedural matter, namely to record the votes for the next president and declare him duly elected.

Russia does not always get the best of press and there seems no doubt that the British people are pretty furious at their actions in Salisbury in an attempted assassination and their subsequent denials of it. What a pity they persist in this type of activity.

One of the results of the lockdown was that certain petty crime like shoplifting appears to have dropped. Surprise, surprise, given that most shops were closed. Theft too from private houses seems to have been contained but then it is quite risky to go in and help yourself when the chances of the owners being at home are somewhat high.

My last watershed day was 25^th April and we thought that might be something of the beginning of a turning point. With the benefit of hindsight, that “exact science”, we can see that in one way quite a lot has changed; in another way nothing has changed!