Just because you can, doesn’t mean you shouldIt’s difficult, consulting this morning’s headlines, to know how to feel or act on what ought to be a pretty joyous day of indoor drinking, guiltless hugging, feigning interest in museum exhibits and quarantine-free travel to Portugal and the South Sandwich Islands. Unlocking is proceeding as planned but, with the Indian variant on the rise, Boris Johnson has warned us to proceed with a “heavy dose of caution”. SponsoredSage’s Sir Mark Walport, a former chief scientific adviser, warned yesterday that he would not sit inside a pub regardless of the change in rules, an admission that may as well have been written to guilt-trip Red Box editors past and present. “My advice is that just because

Source: The Times May 17, 2021 08:03 UTC