As virus surges, isolated UK leader Johnson faces many foes

Alone is what "they" wanted...

350 gazillion a week plus an Austin Allegro in every garage hurrah!

The Tory cannibals are getting hungry.

They’ll have no hesitation slaughtering and butchering this one.

It's not generally nice to enjoy watching someone fall but for palpably false Johnson I'll make an exception. I would never tire beating Dominic Cummings either.

Rashford’s campaign, which has drawn on his own experience of childhood food poverty, has struck a chord, with businesses, charities and local authorities all offering food. But the government has refused to fund free school meals over the current half-term break or December's Christmas holidays.

That intransigence has mystified many observers. Even supportive lawmakers say Johnson’s government needs to show it cares about issues that matter to millions of people.

This was bizarre. I’m still trying to work out what this refusal was about. Johnson tried to position himself as a one-nation Tory and distance himself from the tooth-and-claw filth of the old Thatcherites but then oversaw this.

Playing to the nasty party base?