Waiting For The Great Leap Forward

This week: Boris Johnson clings on, a water-y map of England, and how did the pandemic affect Britain’s busiest railway stations?

“Why don't I do my newsletter on Wednesdays?” I said. “Nothing much happens in the middle of the week,” I said. Seven weeks into a rolling crisis whose flashpoints have repeatedly included the Wednesday lunchtime set piece of PMQs, I am beginning to question the wisdom of this decision.

That said, with a story that's changing every hour, and no other pol…