Open wide, this won’t hurt a bit

This week: Britain unmasked, a capital map of the UK, and a quick trip to the Isle of Man.

A mask. Conspicuously absent: any member of the British government. Image: Wikimedia Commons.

The bit I don’t understand is the mask thing.

I can understand how and why a government engaged in constant vermin-signalling about the need to tighten control of Britain’s borders ended up letting the more infectious delta variant of Covid-19 in: that variant em…